Chapter 2: Q 26. (page 108)
Density curves Sketch a density curve that might describe a distribution that has a single peak and is skewed to the left.
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Chapter 2: Q 26. (page 108)
Density curves Sketch a density curve that might describe a distribution that has a single peak and is skewed to the left.

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T2.6. The figure shown is the density curve of a distribution. Five of the seven points marked on the density curve make up the five-number summary for this distribution. Which two points are not part of the five-number summary?

(a) and
(b) and F
(c) and E
(d) and
(e) and .
Mrs. Munson is concerned about how her daughter’s height and weight compared with those of other girls of the same age. She uses an online calculator to determine that her daughter is at the percentile for weight and the percentile for height. Explain to Mrs. Munson what this means.
Questions 3 and 4 relate to the following setting. The graph displays the cumulative relative frequency of the lengths of phone calls made from the mathematics department office at Gabaldon High last month.
About what percent of the cockroaches have weights between and grams?
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(e)
Cool pool? Coach Ferguson uses a thermometer to measure the temperature (in degrees Celsius) at different locations in the school swimming pool.
An analysis of the data yields a mean ofand a standard deviation of . Find the mean and standard deviation of the temperature readings in degrees Fahrenheit (recall that
Shopping spree The figure below is a cumulative relative frequency graph of the amount spent by
consecutive grocery shoppers at a store.
(a) Estimate the interquartile range of this distribution. Show your method.
(b) What is the percentile for the shopper who spent ?
(c) Challenge: Draw the histogram that corresponds to this graph. 
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