What is another name for a boxplot?

• A. Box-whisker plot
• B. Boxplot
• C. Histogram
• D. Scatter plot

Answer: (A)

Another name for a boxplot is a box-whisker plot. The box-whisker term highlights the two key features you see: a box that shows the middle portion of the data and the whiskers that extend to the extremes, giving a quick view of spread and potential outliers. This name is simply an alternative way to refer to the same chart.

The other two options describe different graphs: a histogram displays frequency in data bins, and a scatter plot shows how two variables relate to each other. So the box-whisker plot is the same type of chart as a boxplot, just called by a different name.