Question

At a hospital emergency room, a simple random sample of 18 people who visited the emergency room for a drug overdose during the past month gave the following ages, in years:

15.1 18.8 19.9 20.1 20.7 22.4 23.1 25.2 26.1

27.6 27.9 28.4 29.7 30.7 38.4 45.7 50.2 65.3

a. Find the 5-number summary for this data.

b. Identify any outliers that exist for this data, using the method discussed in class.

Answer 1