You're the manager of the packing crew at Meatin' Place meat market, where
the slogan is "no customer is an outlier." Being the manager, you spend your
time weighing meat packages and creating five-number summaries.
Calculate the five-number summary and create the modified box-and-whisker
plot for the ground beef package weight data shown here. Then answer the
next few questions about it.
Ground Beef Package Weight Data (in pounds)
0.75 0.93
0.83
0.96
0.87
0.96
0.89
0.89
0.89
0.92
0.97
0.98
0.99
1.06
1.08
1.08
1.15
1.16
1.16
1.19
1.19
1.2
1.21
1.24
1.28
1.38
1.41
Which of the following statements is true about the five-number summary
and box-and-whisker plot for these data?
A. The distance from Q3 to the maximum is smaller than the
distance from Q1 to the minimum.
B. The median weight is less than one.
C. The distance from Q1 to the median is nearly equal to the
distance from Q3 to the median.
OD. Both the minimum and maximum values would be considered
outliers.
E. The lower quartile of the weight distribution is above 1 pound.