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2. Box-and-Whisker Plots
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Exercise 1 Page 343

The first quartile is the median of the lower half of the data set.

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Practice makes perfect

Quartiles divide data sets into four equally sized portions. The first quartile is the median of the lower half of the data. Therefore, to find it, we should follow these steps.

first quartile steps

Keep in mind that when a data set has an even number of values, the median is the mean of the middle values.