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A quartile is a given section in a range of data. To find the quartile, you must first find the median. Then find the "median of the median", using these to separate your data into sections, giving you a total of four sections of data.
how do you find the interquartile range of this data
You would first need to know the amounts of each quartile. Then use your formula to place the numbers inside.
First arrange the data set in ascending order. Suppose the data set consists of n observations. the index for the lower quartile is (n + 1)/4 and the index for the upper quartile is 3*(n + 1)/4. Find the values that correspond to the number in these positions in the ordered list. For example, if n = 15, then lower index = 4 and upper index = 12. So the lower quartile is the fourth number and the upper quartile is the twelfth. If n is large, you may skip the +1 and just look at n/4 and 3n/4. Often the indices are not integers. Then, if you are a beginner (nd the fact that you asked this question suggests that you are), find the nearest whole numbers for the two indices. Otherwise you need to interpolate and that is a whole new ball game!
Find the difference between the values for quartile 3 and quartile 1.