Chapter 1: Q 105. (page 77)
File sizes Refer to Exercise 101. Find the interquartile range of the file size distribution shown in the dotplot.
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2.8 megabytes is the resultant answer.
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Chapter 1: Q 105. (page 77)
File sizes Refer to Exercise 101. Find the interquartile range of the file size distribution shown in the dotplot.
2.8 megabytes is the resultant answer.
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Simpson鈥檚 paradoxAccident victims are sometimes taken by helicopter from the accident scene to a hospital. Helicopters save time. Do they also save lives? The two-way table summarizes data from a sample of patients who were transported to the hospital by helicopter or by ambulance.

(a) What percent of patients died with each method of transport? Here are the same data broken down by severity of accident:

(b) Calculate the percent of patients who died with each method of transport for the serious accidents. Then calculate the percent of patients who died with each method of transport for the less serious accidents. What do you notice?
(c) See if you can explain how the result in part (a) is possible given the result in part (b).
Note: This is an example of Simpson鈥檚 paradox, which states that an association between two variables that holds for each value of a third variable can be changed or even reversed when the data for all values of the third variable are combined.
Carbon dioxide emissions Burning fuels in power plants and motor vehicles emits carbon dioxide (CO2 ), which contributes to global warming. The table displays CO2 emissions per person from countries with populations of at least 20 million. 30
Part (a). Make a histogram of the data using intervals of width 2, starting at 0.
Part (b). Describe the shape of the distribution. Which countries appear to be outliers

Multiple Choice Select the best answer.
Exercises 9 and 10 refer to the following setting. At the Census Bureau website www.census.gov, you can view detailed data collected by the American Community Survey.
The following table includes data for 10 people chosen at random from the more than 1 million people in households contacted by the survey. 鈥淪chool鈥 gives the highest level of education completed.

The individuals in this data set are
(a) households.
(b) people.
(c) adults.
(d) 120 variables.
(e) columns
You look at real estate ads for houses in Naples, Florida. There are many houses ranging from \(200,000 to \)500,000 in price. The few houses on the water, however, are priced up to $15 million. The distribution of house prices will be
a. skewed to the left.
b. roughly symmetric.
c. skewed to the right.
d. single-peaked.
e. too high.
Superpowers A total of 415 children from the United Kingdom and the United States who completed a survey in a recent year were randomly selected. Each student鈥檚 country of origin was recorded along with which superpower they would most like to have: the ability to fly, ability to freeze time, invisibility, superstrength, or telepathy (ability to read minds). The data are summarized in the following table.

(a) What proportion of students in the sample are from the United States?
(b) Find the distribution of superpower preference for the students in the sample using relative frequencies.
(c) What percent of students in the sample are from the United Kingdom and prefer telepathy as their superpower preference?
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