A discount office supply company has several stores located

A discount office supply company has several stores located throughout three parts of the United States. The following boxplots show sales revenue (in thousands of dollars) in May 2014 from the stores within each of the regions of the country.

Which region has the highest median sales revenue?

Which region has the least consistency in sales revenue?

Which region seems to be doing worst in terms of sales revenue overall?

Complete the statement: About 25% of the stores from the West region have May 2014 monthly sales

revenue of more than $ ___________ thousand dollars.

In which region was the sales revenue from the store strongly skewed right?

The VP for the Southeast region says that there were the same number of stores with average monthly sales above $100,000 than below $75,000. Does the box plot agree with her statement? Explain.

Solution

Northeast has the highest median sales.
West has the least consistent sales.
Southeast is doing the worst in sales.
revenue of more than $137,500
West has sales revenue skewed right.
Yes, because the lines are at the $100K and $75K mark.`