The supplied box plot shows journey times. An outlier is defined as a value more than 1.5×IQR1.5\times\mathrm{IQR}1.5×IQR beyond the nearer quartile.
Calculate the upper outlier boundary.
Verify that the separately plotted value is an outlier.
Explain why it should not automatically be deleted.
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