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Chapter 4: Q. 92 (page 269)

Comparing rainfall (1.3) The boxplots summarize the distributions of average monthly rainfall (in inches) for Tucson, Arizona, and Princeton, New Jersey Compare these distributions.


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  • The Princeton distribution is left-skewed whereas the Tucson distribution is right-skewed.
  • The Princeton distribution center looks to be higher than the Tucson distribution center.
  • The Princeton distribution's spread looks to be greater than the Tucson distribution's spread.
  • There is one outlier in the Tucson distribution but none in the Princeton distribution.

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We need to compare the distributions of the boxplots

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We know that

  • Because the box of the boxplot is to the right between the whiskers, the Princeton distribution is skewed to the left. Because the box of the boxplot is to the left between the whiskers, the Tucson distribution is skewed to the right.
  • Because the boxplot of Princeton is total to the right of the boxplot of Tucson, the center of the Princeton distribution seems to be higher than the center of the Tucson distribution (when ignoring the outlier).
  • Because the boxplot of Princeton is wider than the boxplot of Tucson, the spread of the Princeton distribution seems to be higher than the spread of the Tucson distribution.
  • There is one outlier (represented by the dot) in the Tucson distribution, but there is none in the Princeton distribution.

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