school work project

A box and whisker plot looks complicated, but it's really not. I used my veggie data to create the one illustrated below. Follow the steps below to make your own box and whisker plot.

Take your data that is in order from least to greatest. (Like you used in the mean, mode, median, range and stem and leaf pages.) My numbers: 1, 5, 7, 8, 8, 14, 17.
Next, divide them up (while in order) into half. For example: 1, 5, 7, 8 and 8, 8, 14, 17. (Notice, that I had an odd number of data, 7, that can't be divided equally in half. So the middle number (the first 8) gets placed in each half.)
Now, take each half that you had and find the median for each. (Remember from step three, th...