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Consumer Reports rated automobile insurance companies and gave annual premiums for top-rated companies in several states. The figure below shows box plots for annual premiums for urban customers (married couple with one 17-year-old son) in three states. The box plots were all drawn using the same scale on a TI-84Plus/TI-83Plus calculator.

(a) Which state has the lowest premium? the highest?

A: lowest, California; highest, Texas
B: lowest, Pennsylvania; highest, California
C: lowest, California; highest, Pennsylvania

(d) The other set of figures give the five-number summaries generated on the TI-84Plus/TI-83Plus calculators for the box plots. Match the five-number summaries to the appropriate box plots.

Texas (a); California (b); Pennsylvania (c)
Texas (a); Pennsylvania (b); California (c)
Pennsylvania (a); Texas (b); California (c)

Solution

(a) C: lowest, California; highest, Pennsylvania

(d)Texas (a); Pennsylvania (b); California (c)