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VCE 11 General 2023

1.07 Box plots

Worksheet
Five number summary
1

For the box plot shown below, find each of the following:

a

Lowest score

b

Highest score

c

Range

d

Median

e

Interquartile range

Score
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
2

Consider the box plot below and the corresponding five number summary:

Minimum16
Lower Quartile33
Median47
Upper Quartile61
Maximum71

What number should go in position 2?

3

Consider the box plot below and the corresponding five number summary:

Minimum20
Lower Quartile28
Median36
Upper Quartile42
Maximum52

Which number should go in position 4?

Box plots
4

Create a box plot to represent the data in the following tables:

a
Minimum5
Lower Quartile25
Median35
Upper Quartile60
Maximum75
b
Minimum8
Lower Quartile10
Median16
Upper Quartile24
Maximum28
5

Consider the following data:

20, 36, 52, 56, 24, 16, 40, 4, 28

a

Find the five number summary.

b

Construct a box plot for the data.

6

Consider the box plot shown below:

a

State what percentage of scores lie between each of the following:

i

7 and 15

ii

1 and 7

iii

19 and 9

iv

7 and 19

v

1 and 15

b

In which quartile is the data the least spread out?

Score
0
5
10
15
20
Applications
7

The box plot below shows the age at which a group of people got their driving licences:

a

State the oldest age at which someone got their licence.

b

State the youngest age at which someone got their licence.

c

What percentage of people were aged from 18 to 22?

d

The middle 50\% of responders were within how many years of one another?

e

In which quartile are the ages the least spread out?

f

The bottom 50\% of responders were within how many years of one another?

Age
15
20
25
30
35
8

The glass windows for an airplane are cut to a certain thickness, but machine production means there is some variation. The thickness of each pane of glass produced is measured (in millimetres), and the dot plot shows the results:

a

Find the median thickness.

b

Find the interquartile range.

c

Plot a box plot that represents the data.

d

What percentage of thicknesses were between 10.8 mm and 11.2 mm inclusive? Round your answer to two decimal places.

e

According to the box plot, in which quartile are the results the most spread out?

f

State whether the following can be determined from the box plot:

i

The mode thickness

ii

The frequency of each thickness

iii

The median thickness

iv

The spread of thicknesses

9

Two groups of people, athletes and non-athletes, had their resting heart rate measured. The results were displayed in the following pair of box plots:

a

State the median heart rate of athletes.

b

State the median heart rate of the non-athletes.

c

Hence, which group has the lower heart rates?

d

State the interquartile range of the athletes' heart rates.

e

State the interquartile range of the non-athletes' heart rates.

f

Hence, which group has more consistent heart rate measures?

Athletes
40
50
60
70
80
90
Non-athletes
40
50
60
70
80
90
10

In training, a fighter pilot measures the number of seconds he blacks out over a number of flights. He constructs the following box and whisker plot:

As long as the pilot is not unconscious for more than 7 seconds, he will be safe to fly.

The pilot concludes that he is safe to fly all the time. Explain why his conclusion is incorrect.

Seconds
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11

VO_{2} Max is a measure of how efficiently your body uses oxygen during exercise. The more physically fit you are, the higher your VO_{2} Max. A group of people had their VO_{2} Max measured, the results are given below:

21,\text{ } 21,\text{ } 23,\text{ } 25,\text{ } 26,\text{ } 27,\text{ } 28,\text{ } 29,\text{ } 29,\text{ } 29,\text{ } 30,\text{ } 30,\text{ } 32,\text{ } 38,\text{ } 38,\text{ } 42,\text{ } 43,\text{ } 44,\text{ } 48,\text{ } 50,\text{ } 76

a

Find the median VO_{2} Max.

b

Find the upper quartile value.

c

Find the lower quartile value.

d

Construct a box plot for this data.

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