Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data (4th Edition)

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Chapter 3 - Section 3.5 - Assess Your Understanding - Explaining the Concepts - Page 181: 19

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Boxplot: - Skewed right: median on the left side of the box and right whisker longer than left whisker. - Skewed left: median on the right side of the box and left whisker longer than right whisker. - Symmetric: median in the center of the box and both whiskers about the same size. Quartiles: - Skewed right: median is closer to the first quartile than to the third quartile. - Skewed left: median is closer to the third quartile than to the first quartile. - Symmetric: median is about the same distance from the first and third quartiles.

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