In a Box Plot, What Does the Horizontal Line Within

question 5

Multiple Choice

In a box plot, what does the horizontal line within the box represent?

• A) the trimmed mean
• B) the median
• C) the 25^th percentile rank
• D) the 75^th percentile rank

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