How to find outliers

Practice Questions

AP Statistics › How to find outliers

Questions
6
1

Use the following five number summary to determine if there are any outliers in the data set:

Minimum:

Q1:

Median:

Q3:

Maximum:

2

A certain distribution has a 1st quartile of 8 and a 3rd quartile of 16. Which of the following data points would be considered an outlier?

3

You are given the following information regarding a particular data set:

Q1:

Q3:

Assume that the numbers and are in the data set. How many of these numbers are outliers?

4

Which values in the above data set are outliers?

5

For a data set, the first quartile is , the third quartile is and the median is .

Based on this information, a new observation can be considered an outlier if it is greater than what?

6

Use the following five number summary to answer the question below:

Min:

Q1:

Med:

Q3:

Max:

Which of the following is true regarding outliers?

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