The weights in pounds for nine men on the cambridge crew


Question: The weights (in pounds) for nine men on the Cambridge crew team were as follows (The Independent, March 31, 1992; also Hand et al., 1994, p. 337):

188.5, 183.0, 194.5, 185.0, 214.0, 203.5, 186.0, 178.5, 109.0

The nine men are comprised of eight rowers and a coxswain, a person who does not row but gives orders to the rowers about the rowing tempo.

a. Find a five-number summary for these data.

b. Identify whether or not any data points would qualify to be marked as an outlier on a boxplot. If there are outliers, specify the values.

c. Which individual do you think is the coxswain?

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