(a) What are the mean and the standard deviation Enter your answer in accordance to item (a) of the question statement % Enter your answer in accordance to item (a) of the question statement %(b) Calculate the z-score for the largest value and interpret it in terms of standard deviations. Do the same for the smallest value. Round your answers to three decimal places. The largest value: z-score = Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement The maximum of obese is Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement standard deviations Choose the answer from the menu in accordance to item (b) of the question statement                                                                        the mean. The smallest value: z-score = Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement The minimum of obese is Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement standard deviations Choose the answer from the menu in accordance to item (b) of the question statement                                                                        the mean.   (c) This distribution is relatively symmetric and bell-shaped. Give an interval that is likely to contain about of the data values. Round your answers to three decimal places. The interval is: Enter your answer in accordance to item (c) of the question statement %  to Enter your answer in accordance to item (c) of the question statement % .

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Percent Obese by State

Computer output giving descriptive statistics for the percent of the population that is obese for each of the 50 US states, from the USStates dataset, is given in the table shown below. Since all 50 US states are included, this is a population, not a sample.
Descriptive Statistics: Obese
Variable N   Mean SE Mean StDev Minimum   Median   Maximum
Obese 50 0 28.766 0.476 3.369 21.300 26.375 29.400 31.150 35.100

Percent of the population that is obese by state

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(a) What are the mean and the standard deviation


Enter your answer in accordance to item (a) of the question statement %

Enter your answer in accordance to item (a) of the question statement %(b) Calculate the z-score for the largest value and interpret it in terms of standard deviations. Do the same for the smallest value.

Round your answers to three decimal places.

The largest value:

z-score = Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement

The maximum of obese is Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement standard deviations Choose the answer from the menu in accordance to item (b) of the question statement                                                                        the mean.

The smallest value:

z-score = Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement

The minimum of obese is Enter your answer in accordance to item (b) of the question statement standard deviations Choose the answer from the menu in accordance to item (b) of the question statement                                                                        the mean.
 
(c) This distribution is relatively symmetric and bell-shaped. Give an interval that is likely to contain about of the data values.


Round your answers to three decimal places.

The interval is: Enter your answer in accordance to item (c) of the question statement %  to Enter your answer in accordance to item (c) of the question statement % .

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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