Solutions

Please note that the steps show rounded numbers, but that the final answers to the problems are calculated without rounding.

Problem Part Solution
1 - The standard deviation is a measure of how spread out the data are. A larger standard deviation indicates that data are more spread out and less consistent than data that have a smaller standard deviation.
2 - Box Plot C
3 - a. Right Skewed
4 - $46,172
5 - $18,882
6 - $105,987
7 - c. have a longer whisker on the left side
8 - c. The percentage of data is the same for both.
9 - This is just a rough estimate, but somewhere between 190 and 200
10 - Right-skewed
11 - 4 hours
12 - 14 hours
13 - 2 and 4 hours
14 - There is not enough information to answer this question. We need the original data to make this determination.
15 A Uniform = b
15 B Bell-shaped = d
15 C Right-skewed = a
15 D Left-skewed = e
15 E Symmetric, but not bell-shaped or uniform = c
16 - The mean
17 - \(28.5 \text{ nCi/L}\)
18 - \(-23.9 \text{ nCi/L}\)
19 - \(1777.5 \text{ nCi/L}\)
20 - \(904.1 (\text{ nCi/L})^2\)
21 - \(30.1 \text{ nCi/L}\)
22 - c. {0, 0, 10, 10}
23 - b. The standard deviation will decrease.