Stats: Modeling the World Nasta Edition Grades 9-12
Stats: Modeling the World Nasta Edition Grades 9-12
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ISBN: 9780131359581
Author: David E. Bock, Paul F. Velleman, Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter PI, Problem 1RE

(a)

To determine

To display these data with an appropriate graph.

(a)

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In the question, the prices of bananas reported from 15 markets surveyed by the U.S. department of agriculture are given. Thus, the histogram of the prices of bananas reported from 15 markets is constructed as follows:

Stats: Modeling the World Nasta Edition Grades 9-12, Chapter PI, Problem 1RE

In the horizontal axis the prices of bananas are given and on the vertical axis the number of bananas are given.

(b)

To determine

To report appropriate summary statistics.

(b)

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In the question, the prices of bananas reported from 15 markets surveyed by the U.S. department of agriculture are given. Thus, by looking at the graph above in part (a) above we can say that the median of the histogram will be 49 cents as it is middle value of the prices of bananas given in the question and the interquartile range will be the one-third value minus the three-fourth value given in the prices of bananas reported from 15 markets surveyed as:

  IQR=5145=6 cents

(c)

To determine

To write a few sentence about this distribution.

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In the question, the prices of bananas reported from 15 markets surveyed by the U.S. department of agriculture are given. We can say about the distribution by looking at the histogram above and the summary statistics that the distribution is uni-modal and left skewed as the histogram’s curve is going down towards the left of the histogram. And the center is near 50 cents but the values range from 42 cents to 53 cents .

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