Question

8. The boxplot below shows salaries for Construction workers and Teachers. Construction Teacher 50 35 45 40 30 23 20 Salary (thousannds of S) making more than what percentage of Teachers? are If a person is making the first quartile salary for a construction worker, they % of Teachers. They are making more than Jennie makes the minimum salary for a construction worker. Markos makes the median salary for a teache Who makes more money? OMarkos Jennie How much more? $

Answer 1

from the box and whisker plot shown in the question we can compute that:

a) The first quartile salary for construction workers is $35,000 which is also the median salary of teacher hence the construction worker are making more than 50% of the Teachers.

b) Jenni is making a minimum salary for construction workers which is $30,000, and Markos is making a median salary of teachers which is $35,000 hence it is clear that Markos is making more money by $5,000 more.