Question: A researcher investigated capital spending of telecommunications companies in the U.S. and Canada. The capital spending, in thousands of dollars, for each of 27 telecommunications companies is shown in the following table:

9,310 2,515 3,027 1,300 1,800 70 3,634

656 664 5,947 649 682 1,433 389

17,341 5,299 195 8,543 4,200 7,886 11,189

1,006 1,403 1,982 21 125 2,205

(a) Identify the five-number summary of the given data. (absolutely use your calculator, if you can)

(b) Compute the Interquartile Range (IQR).

(c) Construct a boxplot with the given data.