A Soft-Drink Bottling Company Fills and Ships Soda in Plastic $Q _ { 1 } = 352 , Q _ { 2 } = 356$

question 41

Multiple Choice

A soft-drink bottling company fills and ships soda in plastic bottles with a target volume of 354 milliliters. The filling machinery does not deliver a perfectly consistent volume of liquid to each bottle, and the three quartiles for the fill volume are $Q _ { 1 } = 352 , Q _ { 2 } = 356$ , and $Q _ { 3 } = 359$ A fill volume of 344 mL is considered low. Would a fill volume of 344 mL be considered an outlier?

• A) No
• B) Yes