# Five number summary and box-and-whisker diagrams

> The five-number summary packs a sorted data set into five key positions: minimum, lower quartile (Q_1), median (Q_2), upper quartile (Q_3), and maximum. A box-and-whisker diagram (box plot) is the…

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