A curious bartender records the number of beverages ordered by each of her 15 customers during the course of a four-hour shift. Use the data to create an ungrouped frequency table (you may use the back of this page) and answer the questions below.   1 3 5 13 6 4 3 2 5 7 1 2 3 5 5     1. Describe the distribution in terms of its shape, symmetry, and peakedness.       2. For what does X stand?       3. For what does f stand?

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A curious bartender records the number of beverages ordered by each of her 15 customers during the course of a four-hour shift. Use the data to create an ungrouped frequency table (you may use the back of this page) and answer the questions below.

 

1 3 5 13 6 4 3 2 5 7 1 2 3 5 5

 

 

1. Describe the distribution in terms of its shape, symmetry, and peakedness.

 

 

 

2. For what does X stand?

 

 

 

3. For what does f stand?

 

 

 

4. According to your text, should the lowest or highest score be at the

bottom of a frequency distribution table? Why or why not do you think this appropriate?

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Enter this data into Excel

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Create a frequency distribution for the given data

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Now making a scatter plot of this data

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This shows that 

  • Data is positively skewed
  • Symmetry is not present in the data
  • Data has only one peak therefore unimodal

 

 

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