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Singers The display shows the heights of some of the singers in a chorus, collected so that the singers could be positioned on stage with shorter ones in front and taller ones in back.

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a) Describe the distribution.
b) Can you account for the features you see here?

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Ch. 3.2 - Prob. 1JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 2JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 3JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 4JCCh. 3.2 - Prob. 5JCCh. 3.7 - 6. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the median...Ch. 3.7 - Prob. 7JCCh. 3.7 - Prob. 8JCCh. 3 - Prob. 1ECh. 3 - Prob. 2E
Ch. 3 - Prob. 3ECh. 3 - Prob. 4ECh. 3 - Prob. 5ECh. 3 - Prob. 6ECh. 3 - Prob. 7ECh. 3 - Prob. 8ECh. 3 - Prob. 13ECh. 3 - Prob. 14ECh. 3 - Prob. 15ECh. 3 - Singers The display shows the heights of some of...Ch. 3 - Prob. 17ECh. 3 - Prob. 18ECh. 3 - Prob. 19ECh. 3 - Prob. 20ECh. 3 - Prob. 21ECh. 3 - Prob. 22ECh. 3 - Prob. 23ECh. 3 - Prob. 24ECh. 3 - Prob. 25ECh. 3 - Prob. 26ECh. 3 - Prob. 27ECh. 3 - Prob. 28ECh. 3 - Prob. 29ECh. 3 - Prob. 30ECh. 3 - Prob. 31ECh. 3 - Prob. 32ECh. 3 - 63. Movie lengths 2010 The histogram shows the...Ch. 3 - Golf drives 2013 The display shows the average...Ch. 3 - Prob. 35ECh. 3 - Golf drives II 2013 Exercise 34 looked at...Ch. 3 - Prob. 37ECh. 3 - Prob. 38ECh. 3 - Prob. 39ECh. 3 - Prob. 40ECh. 3 - Prob. 41ECh. 3 - Prob. 42ECh. 3 - Prob. 43ECh. 3 - Prob. 44ECh. 3 - Prob. 45ECh. 3 - Prob. 46ECh. 3 - Prob. 47ECh. 3 - Prob. 48ECh. 3 - Prob. 49ECh. 3 - Prob. 50ECh. 3 - Prob. 51ECh. 3 - Prob. 52ECh. 3 - Prob. 53ECh. 3 - Prob. 54ECh. 3 - Prob. 55ECh. 3 - Prob. 56ECh. 3 - Math scores 2013 The National Center for Education...Ch. 3 - Prob. 58ECh. 3 - Prob. 59ECh. 3 - Prob. 60E

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