Chapter 2: Q 4.3. (page 103)
Trace the density curve onto your paper. Mark the approximate location of the median.

Short Answer
The curve is

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Chapter 2: Q 4.3. (page 103)
Trace the density curve onto your paper. Mark the approximate location of the median.

The curve is

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Teacher raises A school system employs teachers at salaries between and . The teachers鈥 union and the school board are negotiating the form of next year鈥檚 increase in the salary schedule.
(a) If every teacher is given a flat raise, what will this do to the mean salary? To the median salary? Explain your answers.
(b) What would a flat raise do to the extremes and quartiles of the salary distribution? To the standard deviation of teachers鈥 salaries? Explain your answers.
T2.8. Which of the following is not correct about a standard Normal distribution?
(a) The proportion of scores that satisfy is .
(b) The proportion of scores that satisfy is .
(c) The proportion of scores that satisfy is .
(d) The proportion of scores that satisfy is .
(e) The proportion of scores that satisfyis .
About what percent of the cockroaches have weights less than grams?
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e) none of these
If is added to every observation in a data set, the only one of the following that is not changed is
(a) the mean. (d) the standard deviation.
(b) the percentile. (e) the minimum.
(c) the median.
Use Table A to 铿乶d the proportion of observations from the standard Normal distribution that satis铿乪s each of the following statements. In each case, sketch a standard Normal curve and shade the area under the curve that is the answer to the question. Use your calculator or the Normal Curve applet to check your answers.
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(a) is between 鈭and
(b) is between and
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