In general,which of the following descriptive summary measures cannot be easily approximated from a boxplot?
A)the variance
B)the range
C)the interquartile range
D)the median

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The variance is a measure of spread that takes into account all the data points, and it cannot be easily estimated from a boxplot, which only shows summary statistics such as the quartiles and potential outliers. The range and interquartile range can be directly read from the boxplot, and the median is represented by the horizontal line in the box.

In General,which of the Following Descriptive Summary Measures Cannot Be