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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

A whole number xx with 1≤x≤501 \le x \le 50 is added to the data 2,9,10,11,12,13,212, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, making eight values. Quartiles are the medians of the lower four and upper four values, and outliers use the 1.5⋅IQR1.5 \cdot \text{IQR} rule. For how many values of xx does the new data set contain at least one outlier?