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Quiz I -Descriptive Statistics

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score for this student.

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d.) If you believe that being sick is "just too bad"

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which measure of central tendency would you use? ,r-teax) MEDIAN

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set are very similar in size.

7.) Compute the range and standard

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deviatiorz for this set of numbers.

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8.) Wirich macirine cioes a beiter job at accurateiy fiiiing

below in order to find out.

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oz-size cereai boxes? Answer ihe question

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Results

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15 boxes selected at random tiom a 1000 box production run.

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Results of

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boxes selected at ran<iom irom a i000 box

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Determine the mean number of ounces per box for each maclune:

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Which machine did a better jpb at consistently filling the boxes to the desired 12 oz amount?

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