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Box-and-whisker chart for a one-variable data set – Sharp EL-9900 User Manual

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Basic Keyboard/GENERAL MATHEMATICS USING THE SHARP EL-9900

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

STEP 1: Press STAT to enter the statistics menu. Delete old data and enter the

following data set in L1:

1

1

1

2

2

2

2

3

4

4

STEP 2: To construct a box-and-whisker chart, first press STAT PLOT

A

ENTER . Press ENTER to turn PLOT1 on. Press

▼ ENTER to choose

one-variable data. Press

▼ 2ndF L1 ENTER to enter L1 as the data

list. Leave the Freq prompt blank. Set the graph to a box-and-whisker

chart by pressing

▼ STAT PLOT E (BOX) 1 Box.

STEP 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.

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

STEP 5: Press TRACE followed by and to view the five values making up the

box-and whisker chart.

STEP 6: Turn PLOT1 off by pressing STAT PLOT ENTER ENTER

2ndF QUIT .

BOX-AND-WHISKER CHART FOR A
ONE-VARIABLE DATA SET