Understanding Basic Statistics
8th Edition
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Author: Charles Henry Brase, Corrinne Pellillo Brase
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2.1, Problem 8P
Critical Thinking A web site rated 100 colleges and ranked the colleges from 1 to 100, with a rank of 1 being the best. Each college was ranked, and there were no ties. If the ranks were displayed in a histogram, what would be the shape of the histogram: skewed, uniform, mound-shaped?
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