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AIM: Box Plots
Do Now
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AIM: Box Plots
Do Now
Check your answers for Mean
and Mean Absolute Deviation
with your partner.
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Anticipatory Set
1.) What information is being displayed in the box plot above?
2.) How do you think the Box Plot was created from a set of data?
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Box Plots
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Interactive Example
Quartiles: the values that divide a list of numbers into quarters
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Create a box plot for the following data.
15, 21, 47, 55, 78, 65, 56, 6, 19, 24, 38
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Create a box plot for the following data.
6, 15, 19, 21, 24, 38, 43, 47, 55, 56, 65, 78
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1.) Create a dot plot of the high temperatures below.
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2.) Create a box plot of the high temperatures below.
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3.) Find the mean of the high temperatures.
4.) Find the Mean Absolute Deviation of the high temperatures.
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5.) Create a dot plot of the low temperatures below.
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SMART Document Camera
6.) Create a box plot of the low temperatures below.
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7.) Find the mean of the low temperatures.
8.) Find the Mean Absolute Deviation of the low temperatures.
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Critical Questions:
1.) How is the dot plot and box plot of the high temperature similar?
2.) How is the dot plot and box plot of the high temperature different?
3.) How are the box plots for the high temperature and the low temperature
different?
4.) Which of the data sets, the high temperature data or the low temperature
data, had a greater variation?
5.) How did you determine your answer for question 4?
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