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Title: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 2, 2021
1. A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was. They counted how
many people showed up to 21 classes. The results are shown below:

31 28 28 30 20 25 38 40 26 28 15 21 28
36 25 16 21 34 37 30 23 24 36 32 25

a) Determine the median, first and third quartiles, and interquartile range.
b) Create a box-and-whisker plot.


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 2, 2021
Hi kyal (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1015881)

We have an excellent video on this content. I'll let you watch it first before I step in to show you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVsNAh7wwoo

Please let me know if you still are having trouble with it.


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 2, 2021
sure but before I do that I just wanted to let you know that I asked one more question from the topic https://biology-forums.com/index.php?topic=1980055.msg5209766#msg5209766 could you check it out please if you can
thank you


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 2, 2021
Sorry, I didn't know you have replied for some reason


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 3, 2021
Im still sort of confused with this question could you just do a) for now?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 4, 2021
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Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 4, 2021
thanks so much  but for Q1 it says that it is 5.5 and Q3 10, you sure this is correct way to do it?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 4, 2021
What do you mean by "it says that it is 5.5 and Q3 10"? Who said that?

Another way to verify, use the formula:

Rank = \(\frac{k\left(n+1\right)}{100}=\frac{25\left(25+1\right)}{100}=\frac{25\left(26\right)}{100}=6.5^{th}\) observation

23 is the 6th, 24 is the 7th. In between is 23.5


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 4, 2021
sorry I meant that solution stated that Q1 is 5.5 and Q3 is 10
you would use the percentile rank formula?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 4, 2021
Yeah, q1 and q3 are the same as 25th and 75th percentile, respectively

I'm gonna stick with my answer, kyal (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1015881)

Wait, is the solution is saying otherwise?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 4, 2021
yes the solution doesn't mention any of your answers
which formula or method would be used to get 5.5 for Q1 and 10 for Q3?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 4, 2021
No clue. Both my two methods lead to my answers, could it be possible that the answers you have are wrong?


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 4, 2021
Probably let me check


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: bio_man on Jun 4, 2021
I'm sticking to my answer, I triple checked it now


Title: Re: A survey was conducted to determine how popular a yoga studio was.
Post by: kyal on Jun 4, 2021
 I double checked and you were right very sorry about that
thank you so much