28 Pulling Wood Apart Exercise 1 46 Page 45 Gives The Breaking Strengths Of 20 Pieces Of Douglas Fir Au Wood A Gi 1 (80.27 KiB) Viewed 89 times
.28 Pulling wood apart. Exercise 1.46 (page 45) gives the breaking strengths of 20 pieces of Douglas fir. au WOOD (a) Give the five-number summary of the distribution of breaking strengths. (b) Here is a stemplot of the data rounded to the nearest hundred pounds. The stems are thousands of pounds, and the leaves are hundreds of pounds. 23 0 24 11 25 26 5 27 287 29 30259 31 399 32 033677 3310237
The stemplot shows that the distribution is skewed to the left. Does the five-number summary show the skew? Remember that only a graph gives a clear pic- ture of the shape of a distribution.
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