Sharp EL-9900C User Manual page 17

BOX-AND-WHISKER CHART FOR A
ONE-VARIABLE DATA SET
Steps for creating a data set's box-and-whisker chart
STEP 1: Press STAT to enter the statistics menu. Delete old data and enter the
following data set in L1:
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STEP 2: To construct a box-and-whisker chart, first press STAT PLOT A
ENTER . Press ENTER to turn PLOT1 on. Press ▼
one-variable data. Press ▼
list. Leave the Freq prompt blank. Set the graph to a box-and-whisker
chart by pressing ▼
STEP 3: In the example, the data is discrete with a smallest value of 1 and a largest
value of 4. Set the viewing window to 0 < x < 5 with Xscl = 1. Next, set the
vertical axis to 0 < y < 1 with Yscl = 1.
STEP 4: To view the box-and-whisker chart for the data, press GRAPH .
STEP 5: Press TRACE followed by
box-and whisker chart.
STEP 6: Turn PLOT1 off by pressing STAT PLOT
2ndF QUIT .
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STAT PLOT E (BOX) 1 Box.
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2ndF L1 ENTER to enter L1 as the data
and to view the five values making up the
ENTER
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ENTER to choose
ENTER