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Percentiles and Box Plots · Hard problem

For the data set 8,15,13,9,1,9,2,22,31,248, 15, 13, 9, 1, 9, 2, 22, 31, 24, find the upper fence Q3+1.5 IQRQ_3 + 1.5\,\text{IQR} used to flag outliers (quartiles are the medians of the halves). Express your answer as a common fraction or decimal.