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Chapter 1: Q 117. (page 78)

Who texts more? For their final project, a group of AP Statistics students wanted to compare the texting habits of males and females. They asked a random sample of

students from their school to record the number of text messages sent and received over a two-day period. Here are their data:

a. Make parallel boxplots of the data.

b. Use your calculator to compute numerical summaries for both samples.

c. Do these data suggest that males and females at the school differ in their texting

habits? Use the results from parts (a) and (b) to support your answer.

Short Answer

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a.

b. For male: n=15,MaxX=214and for female: n=16,MaxX=379

c. Females are texting more frequently.

Step by step solution

01

Given Information

It is given that:

02

Boxplot

As per given data, parallel box plot is constructed as:

03

Numerical Descriptive Statistics using Calculator.

For male,

For female:

04

If difference exists in texting habits of males and females.

From boxplots, we can say that females are texting more frequently than males.

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