Question

When 20 employees were first hired in 2011 for an environmental engineering firm, Company A, the starting annual salary was $35,000. A competing environmental engineering firm, Company B, had the same starting salary for 20 employees hired the same year. In 2016, data was collected on the annual salaries of the same employees at each company. This data is displayed in the box plot shown. Part A: Compare the annual salary distributions. Part B: What are the pros and cons of working at each company? Explain using what you found in Part A.

Answer 1

Box plots are used to display data using a rectangle whose vertical edges represent the quartiles.

(a) Compare the annual salary

From the box plots, we have the following highlights:

• Company A's entry salary is less than company B's i.e. the minimum salary
• Company A's median salary is less than company B's
• Company A's maximum salary is greater than company B's

(b) The pros and cons

Company A

The box plot of company A has an outlier; this means that there is a possibility of earning much more in company A than B.

Company B

At company B, your entry salary is better compared to working in company A

Read more about box plots at:

https://brainly.com/question/14277132