Sharp EL-9600 manual Enter 2ndF

To view the box-and-whisker chart for the example data, press GRAPH . The following graph will be constructed for the data.

Press TRACE followed by

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and

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to view the five values making up the

box-and whisker chart. Turn PLOT1 off by pressing 2ndF

STAT PLOT

ENTER

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ENTER 2ndF

QUIT .

For Discussion

You and your students can discuss:

1.Why can't we use the midpoint as the lower bound for the intervals to construct the broken-line graphs? (The intervals would not match our chosen ones.)

2.How might you use the box-and-whisker chart graph for decisions?

Additional Problems

Create the broken-line and cumulative frequency graphs for the following data:

1.	66	68	73	55	63	58	71	59	62
2.	Value		Frequency
	1		20

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20Other Graphical Portrayals of a One-Variable Data Set/STATISTICS USING THE SHARP EL-9600