Question

The Graduation rates for twenty-five (25) HBCUs) for the academic school year (2018-2019) were as follows: 55, 12, 30, 32, 42, 39, 21, 48, 19, 27, 37, 59, 62, 44, 11, 43, 17, 47, 26, 20, 38, 32, 18, 69, & 33 Determine the following: a. First Quartile b. Second Quartile c. Third Quartile

Answer 1

Ascending Order:

Ascending order	Position
11	1
12	2
17	3
18	4
19	5
20	6
21	7
26	8
27	9
30	10
32	11
32	12
33	13
37	14
38	15
39	16
42	17
43	18
44	19
47	20
48	21
55	22
59	23
62	24
69	25

a. First Quartile =Average of 6th and 7th postion = (20+21)/2 = 20.5

b.

Second Quartile = (25+1)/2 th position = 13th position = 33

c.

Third Quartile =Average of 19th and 20th postion = (44+47)/2 = 45.5