The members of the city cultural center have decided to put on a play once a night for a week. Their auditorium holds 600 people
. By selling tickets, the members would like to raise $2,700 every night to cover all expenses. Let d represent the number of adult tickets sold at $6.50. Let s represent the number of student tickets sold at $3.50 each. If all 600 seats are filled for a performance, how many of each type of ticket must have been sold for the members to raise exactly $2,700? At one performance there were threethree times as many student tickets sold as adult tickets. If there were 400 tickets sold at that performance, how much below the goal of $2,700, did ticket sales fall?
Sample answer: The median of the means for Grade 8 is greater than for Grade 12. However, there is less variation in the data for Grade 12 since the length of the box for Grade 12 is shorter than the one for Grade 8.