Question

A high school has 36
players on the football team. The summary of the players' weights is given in the box plot. Approximately, what is the percentage of players weighing less than or equal to 224
pounds?

Answer 1

To find the approximate percentage of players weighing less than or equal to 224 pounds, we can look at the box plot and see where 224 pounds falls on the distribution.

From the box plot, we can see that 224 pounds falls between the median and the third quartile (75th percentile) of the distribution. This means that approximately 50% of the players weigh less than or equal to 224 pounds.

Therefore, we can estimate that approximately 50% of the 36 players weigh less than or equal to 224 pounds. This corresponds to 18 players.

So, approximately 50% of the players weigh less than or equal to 224 pounds.