A box plot shows ________.
A)the mean and variance
B)the relative symmetry of a distribution for a set of data
C)the 10th and 90th percentiles of a distribution
D)the deciles of a distribution

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A box plot, also known as a box-and-whisker plot, displays the median, quartiles, and outliers of a dataset, which can help in understanding the distribution's relative symmetry, but it does not directly show mean, variance, specific percentiles like the 10th and 90th, or deciles.

A Box Plot Shows ________