Question

At one hospital there is some concern about the high turnover of nurses. A survey was done to determine how long (in months) nurses had been in their current positions. The responses (in months) of 20 nurses were as follows. 27 6 9 18 29 40 31 46 16 12 11 27 33 30 32 15 24 35 12 40 Make a box-and-whisker plot of the data. Correct: Your answer is correct. Find the interquartile range?

Answer 1

Using Minitab:

• Click Graph → Boxplot.
• A new window named “Boxplots” pops up.
• Click “OK” in the window “Boxplots.”
• Another new window named “Boxplot– One Y, Simple” pops up.
• Select “Response” as the “Graph Variables.”

• Click the “Data View” button and a new window named “Boxplot– Data View” pops up.

InterQuartile Range:

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