In recent years, many European nations have suffered from relatively high youth unemployment. For the 28 EU nations, the table below shows the unemployment rate among 15- to 24-year-olds in 2013, also available as a file on the book€™s website. If you are computing the statistics below by hand, it may be easier to arrange the data in increasing order and write them in 4 rows of 7 values each.
a. Find and interpret the second quartile 1= median 2.
b. Find and interpret the first quartile (Q1).
c. Find and interpret the third quartile (Q3).
d. Will the 10th percentile be around the value of 6 or 16? Explain.

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Spain 26.4 France 10.3 Croatia 17.2 Italy 12.2 Belgium 8.4 Bulgaria 13.0 Czech Republic 7.0 Denmark 7.0 Germany 5.3 Estonia 8.6 Ireland 13.1 Greece 27.3 Cyprus 15.9 Latvia 11.9 Lithuania 11.8 Luxembourg 5.8 Hungary 10.2 Malta 6.5 Netherlands 6.7 Slovakia 14.2 Austria 4.9 Poland 10.3 Portugal 16.5 Romania 7.3 Slovenia 10.1 Finland 8.2 Sweden 8.0 United Kingdom 7.5