Question

1. which display can be used to find that the median mass was 8 kilograms? choose 1 answer: a) the histogram b) the box plot

Explanation:

A box plot (or box - and - whisker plot) shows the five - number summary of a dataset: minimum, first quartile ($Q_1$), median ($Q_2$), third quartile ($Q_3$), and maximum. So we can directly read the median from a box plot. A histogram is used to show the frequency distribution of a dataset, and it does not directly display the median.

Answer:

B. The box plot