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Chapter 1: Q 49. (page 48)

Getting older How old is the oldest person you know? Prudential Insurance Company asked 400 people to place a blue sticker on a huge wall next to the age of the oldest person they have ever known. An image of the graph is shown here. Describe the shape of the distribution.

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Left - skewed

Single peak

Gap at 70 year

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 Step 1. Given information.

Prudential Insurance Company asked 400 people to place a blue sticker on a huge wall next to the age of the oldest person they have ever known An image of the graph is shown here.

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 Step 2.The distribution is skewed to the left 

We can see that the distribution is skewed to the left because the peak in the graph is to the right with a tail fewer dots to the left

We can see that the distribution has a single peak between 90 and 100 years, with a gap at 70 years.

Left - skewed

Single peak

Gap at 70 year

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