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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

A frequency table groups NN scores into classes 00–1010: 66; 1010–2020: aa; 2020–3030: 1818; 3030–4040: bb; 4040–5050: 44. Quartiles are estimated from the cumulative frequency graph (straight lines between class boundaries, Q1Q_1 at cumulative count N/4N/4 and Q3Q_3 at 3N/43N/4). The estimates are Q1=19Q_1 = 19 and Q3=35Q_3 = 35. Find a+ba + b.