Question

Help with Box and Whiskers

Answer 1

so how does your course define outliers?

Answer 2

In my book it says "Outliers are points that don't fit the pattern of the rest of the data"

Answer 3

thats the def i was raised with ... these days they have some formula like:

mean +- IQR(1.5) defines the interval that is NOT ourliers

Answer 4

http://www.mathwords.com/o/outlier.htm

Answer 5

or something like that

Answer 6

what is q3 - q1?

Answer 7

So the outlier is 30.052?

Answer 8

Q3-Q1=6

Answer 9

and 6*1.5 is 9

so by one definition, an outlier is any value that is NOT between q1-9, and q3+9

Answer 10

no numbers are less than 8.1

any on the high side?

Answer 11

So 33.2 and 34 are outliers?

Answer 12

So the answer is D?

Answer 13

if we accept the definition using the IQR yes.

so our box plot should have 2 little open dots on the high side

Answer 14

D would be my best educated guess as well

Answer 15

Thank you so much!

Answer 16

good luck :)

Answer 17

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