The correct option regarding the data-sets represented by the box and whisker plots is:
B. The distribution for town A is positively skewed, but the distribution for town B is symmetric.
<h3>What does a box-and-whisker plot shows?</h3>
A box and whisker plot shows three things:
- The 25th percentile, which is the median of the bottom 50%.
- The median, which splits the entire data-set into two halfs, the bottom 50% and the upper 50%.
- The 75th percentile, which is the median of the upper 50%.
For data-set A, we have that:
- The 25th percentile is of 15.
- The 75th percentile is of 30.
Since 30 - 20 > 20 - 15, the distribution is positively skewed.
For data-set B, we have that:
- The 25th percentile is of 20.
- The 75th percentile is of 40.
Since 40 - 30 = 30 - 20, the distribution is symmetric.
Hence the correct option is:
B. The distribution for town A is positively skewed, but the distribution for town B is symmetric.
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