Introduction to Probability and Statistics
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ISBN: 9781133103752
Author: Mendenhall, William
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 2.2, Problem 2.1E
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- Draw a dotplot for the data. (HInt: If twomeasurements are the same, place one dot above theother.) Guess the approximate “center.”
- Find the
mean ,median , andmode . - Locate the three measures of center on the dotplotin part a. Based on the relative positions of the meanand median, are the measurements symmetric orskewed?
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