Press STAT to enter the statistics menu. Delete old data and enter the
following data set in L1 using weights in L2:
1112222344
Move the highlighter to the cell directly below L1. Enter the data by pressing
1 ENTER 2 ENTER 3 ENTER 4 ENTER 3 ENTER 4 ENTER
1 ENTER 2 ENTER .
To construct a box-and-whisker chart, first press 2ndF STAT PLOT ENTER .
Press ENTER to turn PLOT1 on. Press ▼ ENTER to choose one-variable
data. Press ▼ 2ndF L1 ENTER to enter L1 as the data list. Set the
frequency prompt to L2 by pressing 2ndF L2 ENTER . Set the graph to
a broken-line graph by pressing 2ndF STAT PLOT , touch E BOX, and double
touch 1 Box.
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 (one below the smallest and one above
the largest) with Xscl = 1 (width of interval) by pressing WINDOW 0 ENTER
5 ENTER 1 ENTER . Next, set the vertical axis to 0 < y < 1 (no specific
setting because the calculator places the box chart in whatever y range you set)
with Yscl = 1 by pressing 0 ENTER 1 ENTER 1 ENTER .
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