Ms. Alison drew a box-and-whisker plot to represent her students’ scores on a mid-term test.

box-and-whisker plot

Josh received 72 on the test. Describe how his score compared to those of his classmates. (1 point)
About 25% scored higher; about 75% scored lower.
Everyone scored higher.
No one scored higher.
About 50% scored higher; about 50% scored lower.

8 answers

Ms sue help help
I must admit that I had no idea what a "box and whisker" plot is, even though I taught math for 35 years,
so I looked it up and found this video of the very useful Khan Academy by Sal Khan

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/descriptive-statistics/Box-and-whisker%20plots/v/box-and-whisker-plots
It's D. No one scored higher
What are the answers to the test??
D. About 50% scored higher, 50% scored lower
D is it
ms.alison drew a box-and-whisker plot to represent her student's scores. How does james's score compare to his classmates? James received 47 on the test.
A. About 25% scored higher; about 75% scored lower
B. About 50%scored higher; about 50% scored lower
C. About 75% scored higher;about 25% scored lower
D. no one scored higher
Please help
it’s c. 75% scored higher, 25% scored lower. u can see this by just looking at the box and whisker plot hope this helped