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Chapter 1: Q. R1.10. (page 85)

Mercury in tuna Is there a difference in the mercury concentration of light tuna and albacore tuna? Use the parallel boxplots and the computer output to write a few sentences comparing the two distributions.

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There appears to be a distinction.

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Step 1. Given information

Mercury in tuna Is there a difference in the mercury concentration of light tuna and albacore tuna

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Step 2. a couple of sentences comparing the two distributions

There is a difference in mercury concentration because the mean, minimum, first quartile Q1, median, and third quartileQ3for Albacore tuna are higher than for light tuna.

However, we note that the maximum for Light tuna is higher than for Albacore tuna, despite the fact that Light tuna has many outliers and Albacore tuna has only one.

Light tuna has a much wider range of mercury concentrations than Albacore tuna.

As a result:

There appears to be a distinction.

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