Twenty-Eight Applicants Interested in Working for the Food Stamp Program

question 87

Essay

Twenty-eight applicants interested in working for the Food Stamp program took an examination designed to measure their aptitude for social work. A stem-and-leaf plot of the 28 scores appears below, where the first column is the count per branch, the second column is the stem value, and the remaining digits are the leaves. What is the value of the first quartile?
Q1 = ______________
What is the value of the third quartile?
Q3 = ______________
What is the interquartile range?
IQR = ______________
Find the inner fences.
______________
Find the outer fences.
______________
Construct a boxplot for this data.
Does the boxplot indicate the presence of any outliers?
______________

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