NAME _____________________________________________________ CLASS __________ DATE __________

4.2

OTHER GRAPHICAL PORTRAYALS OF A

ONE-VARIABLE DATA SET

Steps for creating a weighted data set's box-and-whisker chart

1. Press STAT to enter the statistics menu. Delete old data and enter the following data set in L1 using weights in L2:

1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 4

2.To construct a box-and-whisker chart, first press 2ndF ENTER . Press ENTER to turn PLOT1 on. Press

STAT PLOT

ENTER to choose

one-variable data. Press 2ndF L1 ENTER to enter L1 as the data list. Set the frequency prompt to L2 by pressing 2ndF L2 ENTER . Set the graph to a broken-line graph by pressing 2ndF STAT PLOT , touch E BOX, and double touch 1 Box.

3.In the example, the data is discrete with a smallest value of 1 and a largest value of 4. Set the viewing window to 0 < x < 5 with Xscl = 1. Next, set the vertical axis to 0 < y < 1 with Yscl = 1.

4.To view the box-and-whisker chart for the data, press GRAPH .

5.

Press

 

TRACE

followed by

and

to view the five values making up the

 

box-and whisker chart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6.

Turn PLOT1 off by pressing

2ndF

 

STAT PLOT

 

ENTER

ENTER

 

 

 

 

 

 

.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2ndF

 

 

QUIT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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