An issue of Brokerage Report discussed the capital spending of telecommunications companies in the United States and

Question:

An issue of Brokerage Report discussed the capital spending of telecommunications companies in the United States and Canada. The capital spending, in thousands of dollars, for each of 27 telecommunications companies is shown in the following table.

a. Obtain and interpret the quartiles.
b. Determine and interpret the interquartile range.
c. Find and interpret the five-number summary.
d. Identify potential outliers, if any.
e. Construct and interpret a boxplot.