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Grade 12

Create and Interpret Side-by-Side Boxplots

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The box plots show the monthly profits (in thousands of dollars) of two financial traders over a year.

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a

Who made a higher median monthly profit?

Ned

A

Tobias

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b

Whose profits had a higher interquartile range?

Tobias

A

Ned

B
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Whose profits had a higher range?

Ned

A

Tobias

B
d

How much more did Ned make in his most profitable month than Tobias did in his most profitable month?

Easy
2min

The box plots show the heights, in centimetres, jumped by two high jumpers.

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< 1min

The box plots show the prices, in dollars, of the items on the menu of an upmarket restaurant and the menu of a fast food restaurant.

Easy
3min

The box plots show the number of goals scored by two football players in each season.

Easy
1min
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Outcomes

12D.D.2.3

Generate, using technology, the relevant graphical summaries of two-variable data based on the type of data provided

12D.D.2.5

Interpret statistical summaries to describe the characteristics of a two-variable data set and to compare two related two-variable data sets; describe how statistical summaries can be used to misrepresent two-variable data; and make inferences, and make and justify conclusions, from statistical summaries of two-variable data orally and in writing, using convincing arguments

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