Chapter 2: Q. 49 (page 134)
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: State whether the data are symmetrical, skewed to the left, or skewed to the right.
Short Answer
The data is symmetric.
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Chapter 2: Q. 49 (page 134)
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: State whether the data are symmetrical, skewed to the left, or skewed to the right.
The data is symmetric.
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Santa Clara County, CA, has approximately Japanese-Americans. Their ages are as follows:

a. Construct a histogram of the Japanese-American community in Santa Clara County, CA. The bars will not be the
same width for this example. Why not? What impact does this have on the reliability of the graph?
b. What percentage of the community is under age ?
c. Which box plot most resembles the information above?

Follow the steps you used to graph a box-and-whisker plot for the data values shown.
Use the following information to answer the next two 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.
Construct a box plot below. Use a ruler to measure and scale accurately
Is this a sample or the entire population?
a. sample
b. entire population
c. neither
Twenty-five randomly selected students were asked the number of movies they watched the previous week. The results are as follows:

a. Find the sample mean .
b. Find the approximate sample standard deviation, s.
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