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he National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is divided into three divisions (Division I, II, and III), based roughly on school size. Each division is made up of several conferences for regional league play.
The side-by-side boxplots below compare the distributions of football game wins of teams in two Division I conferences: the Big 10 and SEC (Southeastern Conference) during the 2014 season. (For example, note that the median of the SEC distribution is 8. This means that 50% of the teams in the SEC division had more than eight wins and 50% of the teams had less than eight wins).
X axis is labeled "Football Wins 2014." Big 10 Boxplot: box spans 5 to 9.5; lower line extends from 3 to 5; upper line extends from 9.5 to 14. SEC boxplot: box spans 7 to 10; lower line extends from 3 to 7; upper line extends from 10 to 12.
Based only on the boxplots, which of the two conferences has the most teams?
ANSWER:
It is not possible to determine from the information given.
Good job! Although boxplots provide a wealth of information about data sets, the number of observations in the data is not something you can determine from a boxplot. You need access to the raw data that is used to create the box plot to determine the number of items in the data sets.