Question

sam kept track of the number of problems he was assigned for his math homework on the box plot. number of homework problems which statement must be true according to the box plot? the data is symmetric and shows that half of the assignments contained 15 problems or fewer. the data is symmetric and shows that the majority of the assignments had 19 problems or more. the data is skewed and shows that half of the assignments contained 15 problems or fewer. the data is skewed and shows that the majority of the assignments had 19 problems or more.

Explanation:

A box - plot (or box - and - whisker plot) shows the distribution of data. The median is the line inside the box. If the median is not in the middle of the box and the whiskers are of unequal length, the data is skewed. In a box - plot, the box represents the middle 50% of the data. The lower half of the data (25% - 50%) is from the lower quartile to the median and the upper half (50% - 75%) is from the median to the upper quartile. The statement about half of the assignments containing 15 problems or fewer relates to the position of the median.

Answer:

The data is skewed and shows that half of the assignments contained 15 problems or fewer.