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Chapter 1: Q. 53. (page 48)
U.S. women鈥檚 soccer鈥�2016 Refer to Exercise 47. Describe the distribution.
Right skewed
Single peak at 1 goal
Gap between 6 and 8 goals
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Eat your beans! Beans and other legumes are a great source of protein. The following data give the protein content of 30 different varieties of beans, in grams per 100 grams of cooked beans
Part (a). Make a stemplot of these data.
Part (b). What interesting feature does the graph reveal?
Part (c). What proportion of these bean varieties contain more than 9 grams of protein per 100 grams of cooked beans?
Buying cameras The brands of the last 45 digital single-lens reflex (SLR) cameras sold on a popular Internet auction site are listed here. Make a relative frequency bar graph for these data. Describe what you see.
Paying for championships Does paying high salaries lead to more victories in professional sports? The New York Yankees have long been known for having Major League Baseball鈥檚 highest team payroll. And over the years, the team has won many championships. This strategy didn鈥檛 pay off in 2008, when the Philadelphia Phillies won the World Series. Maybe the Yankees didn鈥檛 spend enough money that year. The figure shows histograms of the salary distributions for the two teams during the 2008 season. Why can鈥檛 you use these graphs to effectively compare the team payrolls?
The Dallas Mavericks won the NBA championship in the 2010鈥�2011 season. The two-way table displays the relationship between the outcome of each game in the regular season and whether the Mavericks scored at least 100 points.
Which of the following is the best evidence that there is an association between the outcome of a game and whether or not the Mavericks scored at least 100 points?
(a) The Mavericks won 57 games and lost only 25 games.
(b) The Mavericks scored at least 100 points in 47 games and fewer than 100 points in only 35 games.
(c) The Mavericks won 43 games when scoring at least 100 points and only 14 games when scoring fewer than 100 points.
(d) The Mavericks won a higher proportion of games when scoring at least 100 points (43/47) than when they scored fewer than 100 points (14/35).
(e) The combination of scoring 100 or more points and winning the game occurred more often (43 times) than any other combination of outcomes.
ShakespeareThe histogram shows the distribution of lengths of words used in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays.
(a) Find the median word length in Shakespeare鈥檚 plays from the histogram. Explain your method clearly.
(b) Calculate the mean of the distribution. Show your work.
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