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    Interquartile Range (IQR)

    What Interquartile Range (IQR) means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.

    Definition of Interquartile Range (IQR)

    The difference between the upper and lower quartiles, representing the middle 50% of the data.
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