Chapter 2: Q 1.3. (page 89)
About what percent of calls lasted less than minutes? minutes or more?
Short Answer
percent of the calls lasted less than minutes, while percent lasted longer.
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Chapter 2: Q 1.3. (page 89)
About what percent of calls lasted less than minutes? minutes or more?
percent of the calls lasted less than minutes, while percent lasted longer.
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About what percent of the cockroaches have weights less than grams?
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(e) none of these
Tall or short? Mr. Walker measures the heights (in inches) of the students in one of his classes.
He uses a computer to calculate the following numerical summaries: Next, Mr. Walker has his entire class stand on their chairs, which are inches off the ground. Then he measures the distance from the top of each student’s head to the floor.
(a) Find the mean and median of these measurements. Show your work.
(b) Find the standard deviation and IQR of these measurements. Show your work.

Normal is only approximate: ACT scores Scores on the ACT test for the 2007 high school graduating class had mean and standard deviation . In all, students in this class took the test. Of these, had scores higher than and another had scores exactly 27. ACT scores are always whole numbers. The exactly Normal distribution can include any value, not just whole numbers. What’s more, there is no area exactly above under the smooth Normal curve. So ACT scores can be only approximately Normal. To illustrate this fact, find
(a) the percent of ACT scores greater than .
(b) the percent of ACT scores greater than or equal to .
(c) the percent of observations from the distribution that are greater than 27. (The percent greater than or equal to is the same, because there is no area exactly over .)
Which of the following is least likely to have a nearly Normal distribution?
(a) Heights of all female students taking STAT at State Tech.
(b) IQ scores of all students taking STAT at State Tech.
(c) SAT Math scores of all students taking STAT at State Tech.
(d) Family incomes of all students taking STAT 001 at State Tech.
(e) All of (a)–(d) will be approximately Normal.
Weights aren’t Normal The heights of people of the same gender and similar ages follow Normal distributions reasonably closely. Weights, on the other hand, are not Normally distributed. The weights of women aged to have mean pounds and median pounds. The first and third quartiles are pounds and pounds. What can you say about the shape of the weight distribution? Why?
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