Example 3

Sam wants to buy a lottery ticket. There are two different tickets that he can buy, and each costs $10. He found a website with information about how much money others have won with their lottery tickets. The information is presented in two box plots, as shown. Use the two box plots to compare the amounts others have won with Ticket 1 and with Ticket 2.
  1. Compare the range of data.
  2. Compare the center of the data sets.
  3. Compare the variation of the data.
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