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Box Plot Match

Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level

Here are six cumulative frequency graphs and six box plots of the same data.
Can you match them up?
You can print out the graphs and boxplots if you like.




















With thanks to Don Steward, whose ideas formed the basis of this problem.
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