Question: The sixth-grade students at Madison Middle School had a walkathon to raise money for their local hospital. Their principal tracked how much money each student raised. This box plot shows the results.
Money raised ($)
What percent of the students raised more than $40?
%
1. **State the problem:** We need to find what percent of students raised more than $40 based on the given box plot.
2. **Understand the box plot:** A box plot shows the distribution of data with five key points: minimum, first quartile (Q1), median (Q2), third quartile (Q3), and maximum.
3. **Identify key values from the box plot:**
- Minimum: about $20$
- Q1 (start of box): about $30$
- Median (middle line in box): about $40$
- Q3 (end of box): about $80$
- Maximum: about $120$
4. **Interpret the median:** The median $40$ means that $50\%$ of the students raised $40$ or less, and $50\%$ raised more than $40$.
5. **Answer:** Therefore, the percent of students who raised more than $40$ is $50\%$.
**Final answer:** $50\%$