Name Date
CREATING BOX PLOTS SHEET 1
1) This data shows the marks from a Geography test from a group of students.
• Fill in the information and use it to draw a box plot on the number line
below to show these results.
Marks 13 12 9 11 14 12 10 15 11 10 7
Minimum 1st 3rd Maximum Interquartile
Median Range
value quartile quartile value Range
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
2) This data shows the number of visitors an art gallery has for different
hours in the day.
• Fill in the information and use it to draw a box plot on the number line
below to show this data.
Number of Visitors 25 17 32 22 19 20 25 31 24 20
Minimum 1st 3rd Maximum Interquartile
Median Range
value quartile quartile value Range
16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
Name Date
CREATING BOX PLOTS SHEET 1 ANSWERS
1) This data shows the marks from a Geography test from a group of students.
• Fill in the information and use it to draw a box plot on the number line
below to show these results.
Marks 13 12 9 11 14 12 10 15 11 10 7
Ordered 7 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 13 14 15
Minimum 1st Median 3rd Maximum Range Interquartile
value quartile quartile value Range
7 10 11 13 15 15 – 7 = 8 13 – 10 = 3
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
2) This data shows the number of visitors an art gallery has for different
hours in a particular week.
• Fill in the information and use it to draw a box plot on the number line
below to show this data.
Number of Visitors 25 17 32 22 19 20 25 31 24 20
Ordered 17 19 20 20 22 24 25 25 31 32
Minimum 1st 3rd Maximum Interquartile
Median Range
value quartile quartile value Range
17 20 (24 + 22) ÷ 2 25 32 32 – 17 = 15 25 – 20 = 5
= 23
16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
