Excursions in Modern Mathematics (9th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134468372
Author: Peter Tannenbaum
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15, Problem 46E
Exercises 45 and 46 refer to the two box plots in Fig. 15-18 showing the starting salaries of Tasmania State University first-year graduates in agriculture and engineering. (These are the two box plots discussed in Example 15.15.)
Figure 15-18
a. Fill in the blank: Of the 612 engineering graduates, at most had a starting salary greater than
b. Fill in the blank: If there were 240 agriculture graduates with starting salaries of
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