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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

Seven whole numbers from 00 to 3030 have median 1010 and interquartile range 44, and none of them is an outlier by the 1.5⋅IQR1.5 \cdot \text{IQR} rule. (Q1Q_1 and Q3Q_3 are the medians of the lowest three and highest three values.) What is the difference between the largest and the smallest possible sum of the seven numbers?