Chapter 2: Q.90 (page 150)
Twenty-five randomly selected students were asked the number of movies they watched the previous week. The results are as follows:

Construct a box plot of the data.
Short Answer
The box plot of the given data is:

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Chapter 2: Q.90 (page 150)
Twenty-five randomly selected students were asked the number of movies they watched the previous week. The results are as follows:

Construct a box plot of the data.
The box plot of the given data is:

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The data are the prices of different laptops at an electronics store. Round each value to the nearest ten.
Javier and Ercilia are supervisors at a shopping mall. Each was given the task of estimating the mean distance that shoppers live from the mall. They each randomly surveyed shoppers. The samples yielded the following information.

a. How can you determine which survey was correct ?
b. Explain what the difference in the results of the surveys implies about the data.
c. If the two histograms depict the distribution of values for each supervisor, which one depicts Ercilia's sample? How do you know?

d. If the two box plots depict the distribution of values for each supervisor, which one depicts Ercilia’s sample? How do you know?

Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: We are interested in the number of years students in a particular elementary statistics class have lived in California. The information in the following table is from the entire section.


The population in Park City is made up of children, working-age adults, and retirees. Table shows the three age groups, the number of people in the town from each age group, and the proportion (%) of people in each age group. Construct a bar graph showing the proportions.

Construct a times series graph for
(a) the number of male births,
(b) the number of female births, and
(c) the total number of births.

Construct a frequency polygon of U.S. Presidents’ ages at inauguration shown in Table .
Chapter | Descriptive Statistics

Frequency polygons are useful for comparing distributions. This is achieved by overlaying the frequency polygons drawn for different data sets.
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