Shape of Data and Skew Practice

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Shape of Data and Skew Practice

Last updated over 3 years ago

11 Nsɛmmisa

What type of skewness is suggested in the box plot shown?

Describe the shape of the distribution shown.

Which of the following is an accurate description of the distribution below?

The sistribution is normal/symmetric.

The mean is 100.

The distribution is left-skewed

The distribution has a gap from 50 to 70.

Tthe distribution is right-skewed.

Describe the shape of the distribution shown.

A data set consisting of the number of hours each of 40 students watched television over the weekend has a minimum value of 3 hours, a Q1 value of 5 hours, a median value of 6 hours, a Q3 value of 9 hours, and a maximum value of 12 hours. Draw a box plot representing this data distribution.

What is the interquartile range (IQR) for this distribution?

What percent of the students fall within this interval?

Do you think the data distribution represented by the box plot is a skewed distribution? Why or why not?

Estimate the typical number of hours students watched television.

Explain why you chose this value:

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