Question

students in a jewelry - making club store their beads in 2 containers. each container has 100 beads of different colors. the box plots show the number of yellow beads found in random samples of 50 beads from each container. what do you notice about the data sets? the centers and the spreads look about the same for both containers. the centers and the spreads look very different for the two containers. the centers look very different, but the spreads look about the same. the centers look about the same, but the spreads look very different.

Explanation:

The box plots for Container A and Container B show that the centers (medians, indicated by the middle lines of the boxes) are positioned differently on the number line, meaning they look very different. The spreads (ranges, indicated by the distance between the minimum and maximum points of each box plot) appear similar in length.

Answer:

The centers look very different, but the spreads look about the same.