Q:

Swati recorded this data set, which contains an outlier. 163, 97, 184, 199, 169, 175 What numbers represent the lower and upper quartiles? lower quartile: 163 upper quartile: 184 lower quartile: 163 upper quartile: 172 lower quartile: 172 upper quartile: 184 lower quartile: 184 upper quartile: 163

Accepted Solution

A:
To determine the answers to this item, we are to arranged the given data points in increasing order. The arrangement would then be,

         97,163, 169, 175, 184, 199

The lower quartile is the median of the lower half of the data points. In this case, 97, 163, 169. The median is equal to 163

The upper quartile is the median of the upper half of the data points. In this case, 175, 184, 199. The median is equal to 184.

Hence, the aswers to this item is that lower quartile is equal to 163 and upper quartile is equal to 184. The first option.