A box-and-whisker plot is a handy tool for visualizing data. By ordering numbers, we can find the range, median, and quartiles. Practice makes perfect when mastering these concepts!

The five-number summary is the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum. In a box plot, we draw a box from the first quartile to the third quartile. A vertical line goes through …

Box-and-whiskers plots help visualize data ranges and medians. First, arrange your numbers from least to greatest. The smallest and largest numbers form the 'whiskers'. The median of the …

Here's a word problem that's perfectly suited for a box and whiskers plot to help analyze data. Let's construct one together, shall we?.

Here's a box and whisker plot of the same distribution that does show outliers. Notice how the outliers are shown as dots, and the whisker had to change. The whisker extends to the …

A box and whisker plot is a handy tool to understand the age distribution of students at a party. It helps us identify the minimum, maximum, median, and quartiles of the data.

Is this some kind of cute cat video? No! Box and whisker plots seek to explain data by showing a spread of all the data points in a sample. The "whiskers" are the two opposite ends of the data. …

More practice making box plots to summarize data sets.

Box and whisker plots Learn Worked example: Creating a box plot (odd number of data points) Worked example: Creating a box plot (even number of data points)

Here's a box plot that summarizes the average monthly rainfall of several cities. Find the interquartile range (IQR) of the data.