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Chapter 2: Q. 38 (page 133)

Use the following information to answer the next six exercises. Sixty-five randomly selected car salespersons were asked the number of cars they generally sell in one week. Fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars.

10thpercentile = _______

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We get 10thpercentile is 3.

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01

Given information

From Sixty-five car salespersons, fourteen people answered that they sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars in one week.

02

Explanation

According to the given information, the data is

33333333333333444444444444444444455555555555566666666677777777777

Here we divide all these 65data on a 100scale. We asked to find the 10thpercentile of the number of cars sold which is the first 10%of the data. Hence we get 10%of the data from the first is 3.

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