Which Ages Fit?

Difficulty: Medium · Topics: Probability, Statistics, Box Plots

The box plot summarises the ages of the people in a group.

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Which of the following could be the ages in the group?

(Quartiles are the medians of the lower and upper halves of the ordered data, not counting the median itself.)