The table shows the year-to-date % change in share prices for the 30 companies that make up
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a. Determine Q1, Q2 and Q3 for the price change data.
b. In which quartile is Caterpillar Inc.? Coca Cola?
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YTD % Change 8.49 8.32 27.41 8.66 39.21 3.39 8.65 -2.52 5.75 15.53 -0.22 7.98 -5.78 23.60 15.05 11.48 Company MMM 3M Co : AA Alcoa Inc AXP American Exp T AT&T Inc BAC Bank of Am BA Boeing Co CAT Caterpillar CVX Chevron CSCO Cisco Sys DD E. I. du Pont XOM Exxon Mobil GE General Electric HPQ Hewlett-Pack HD Home Depot INTC Intel Corp IBM Inter Bus Mac JNJ Johnson & John JPM JPMorgan KFT Kraft Foods 25.56 5.06 -4.45 3.02 19.34 3.42 : MCD McDonald's MRK Merck & Co MSFT Microsoft PFE Pfizer Inc PG Procter & Gamb KO Coca-Cola TRV Travelers UTX United VZ Verizorn WMT Wal-Mart DIS Walt Disney 10.05 9.01 8.74 0.35 14.48
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