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Chapter 1: Q. 54. (page 48)
Fuel efficiency Refer to Exercise 48. Describe the distribution.
Left skewed
Single peak
Gap between -2 mpg and 6 mpg
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Spam Email spam is the curse of the Internet. Here is a relative frequency table that summarizes data on the most common types of spam:
(a) What percent of spam would fall in the “Other” category?
(b) Make a bar graph to display the data. Describe what you see.
(c) Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart of these data? Explain.
Disc dogs Here is a list of the breeds of dogs that won the World Canine Disc Championships from 1975 through 2016. Make a relative frequency bar graph for these data. Describe what you see.
The histogram shows the distribution of the percent of women aged 15 and over who have never married in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Which of the following statements about the histogram is correct?
a. The center (median) of the distribution is about 36%.
b. There are more states with percentages above 32 than there are states with percentages less than 24.
c. It would be better if the values from 34 to 50 were deleted on the horizontal axis so there wouldn’t be a large gap.
d. There was one state with a value of exactly 33%.
e. About half of the states had percentages between 24% and 28%.
Superpower Refer to Exercise 24.
(a) Find the distribution of superpower preference for the students in the sample from each country (i.e., the United States and the United Kingdom). Make a segmented bar graph to compare these distributions.
(b) Describe what the graph in part (a) reveals about the association between country of origin and superpower preference for the students in the sample.
You look at real estate ads for houses in Naples, Florida. There are many houses ranging from \(200,000 to \)500,000 in price. The few houses on the water, however, are priced up to $15 million. The distribution of house prices will be
a. skewed to the left.
b. roughly symmetric.
c. skewed to the right.
d. single-peaked.
e. too high.
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