In a box plot, the black line through the box represents the ______.

In a box plot, the black line through the box represents the ______.

• A. Mean
• B. Median
• C. Mode
• D. Range

Answer: (B)

In a box plot, the line through the box marks the median—the middle value of the data when it’s ordered. The box itself shows the spread from the first quartile to the third quartile, and the whiskers reach the minimum and maximum values (with outliers shown separately if present). The mean and the mode aren’t indicated by that interior line in a standard box plot, and the overall range is conveyed by the distance from minimum to maximum shown by the whiskers.

In a box plot, the line through the box marks the median—the middle value of the data when it’s ordered. The box itself shows the spread from the first quartile to the third quartile, and the whiskers reach the minimum and maximum values (with outliers shown separately if present). The mean and the mode aren’t indicated by that interior line in a standard box plot, and the overall range is conveyed by the distance from minimum to maximum shown by the whiskers.