The box plots that is being referred to are missing, however, we can still answer this without the box plots.
The appropriate measure of variability that can be easily determined by a box plot is the interquartile range. Which is the difference between the 3rd quartile and the 1st quartile.
On a box plot, the first quartile is the data value ta the beginning of the edge of the rectangular box while the third quartile is at the end of the edge of the rectangle box. So, this makes is easy for use interquartile range as a measure of variability when comparing both.
