The length of the box in the box-and-whisker plot portrays the:
A) mean
B) median
C) range
D) interquartile range

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The length of the box in a box-and-whisker plot represents the interquartile range, which is the range of values that contains the middle 50% of the data. The median is represented by a vertical line within the box, and the range is shown by the whiskers (lines or bars extending from the box). The mean is not typically included in a box-and-whisker plot.

The Length of the Box in the Box-And-Whisker Plot Portrays