Chapter 2: Q. 2.74 (page 69)
Construct a dot plot for the given data.
Chapter 2: Q. 2.74 (page 69)
Construct a dot plot for the given data.
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Get started for freeDetroit Tigers. From the Baseball Almanac website, we found the heights, in inches, of the players on the 2012 World Series runner-up Detroit Tigers baseball team.
Use the graph to answer the following questions. Note that cholesterol levels are always expressed as whole numbers.
a. Construct a stem-and-leaf diagram of these data with five lines per stem.
b. Why is it better to use five lines per stem here instead of one or two lines per stem?
Gas Mileage. The gas mileages, are rounded to the nearest number of miles per gallon, of all new car models.
Construct a dot plot for the data.
In a current newspaper or magazine, find two examples of graphs that might be misleading. Explain why you think the graphs are potentially misleading.
The Beatles. In the article, "Length of The Beatles" Songs" (Chance, Vol. 25, No, 1, Pp. 30-33), T. Koyama discusses aspects and interpretations of the lengths of songs by The Beatles. Data on the length, in seconds, of 229 Beatles songs are presented on the WeissStats site.
a. use the technology of your choice to identify the modality and symmetry (or non-symmetry) of the distribution of the data set.
b. if unimodal, classify the distribution as symmetric right-skewed. or left-skewed.
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