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Chapter 2: Q.2.75 (page 135)

Gas it up! (1.3) Interested in a sporty car? Worried that it might use too much gas? The Environmental Protection Agency lists most such vehicles in its “two-seater” or “minicompact” categories. The figure shows boxplots for both city and highway gas mileages for our two groups of cars. Write a few sentences comparing these distributions.

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Both on the highway and in the city, two-seater cars get better fuel economy than mini compacts.

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Given in the question that a graph,

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Solution

Below is a graph illustrating the mileage of city and highway vehicles of both groups,

In both groups of vehicles, it is evident that the mileage per gallon on the highway is higher than in the city.

On the highway as well as in the city, two-seater cars get better mileage than their mini-compact counterparts.

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