Practice with Measures of the Center of Data
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Course: | GKT101: General Knowledge for Teachers – Math |
Book: | Practice with Measures of the Center of Data |
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Date: | Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 8:14 AM |
Description
Complete these exercises and check your answers.
Questions
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: The following data show the lengths of boats moored in a marina. The data are ordered from smallest to largest: \(16 ; 17 ; 19 ; 20 ; 20 ; 21 ; 23 ; 24 ; 25 ; 25 ; 25 ; 26 ; 26 ; 27 ; 27 ; 27 ; 28 ; 29 ; 30 ; 32 ; 33 ; 33 ; 34 ; 35 ; 37 ; 39 ; 40\)
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: Sixty-five randomly selected car salespersons were asked the number of cars they generally sell in one week. Fourteen people answered that they generally sell three cars; nineteen generally sell four cars; twelve generally sell five cars; nine generally sell six cars; eleven generally sell seven cars. Calculate the following:
Use the following information to answer the next three exercises: State whether the data are symmetrical, skewed to the left, or skewed to the right.
Source: Rice University, https://openstax.org/books/introductory-statistics/pages/2-practice
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