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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

Quartiles are the medians of the lower and upper halves of the data (the median excluded when nn is odd), and a value is an outlier if it is more than 1.5⋅IQR1.5 \cdot \text{IQR} below Q1Q_1 or above Q3Q_3. What is the smallest number of values nn that a data set can have and still contain an outlier?