Question

In its report, the Human Resources Department at Hinkle Transport summarized the sick day taken by the company’s 125 employees during the past year. 125 of the people in the survey responded “Yes.” The summary is provided in the table below.

Count 125

Mean 9.968 days

Std Dev 9.098 days

Minimum   1 day

25th percentile 2 days

Median 6 days

75th percentile 20 days

Maximum 30 days

If you were to draw an appropriate box-and-whisker plot, which one of the following statements regarding that plot would be accurate?

a. The right side of the box should be set at 20.
b. The right side of the box should be set at 125.
c. The median line will be drawn closer to the right side of the box than to the left side.
d. The left whisker should extend to a value of 30.
d. The right whisker should extend to a value of 2.

Answer 1

Answer is " a"

Statement " a" is accurate.

a. The right side of the box should be set at 20.