Part (a) Fill in the relative frequency for each group. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) # of books Frequency Relative Frequency 0 18   1 24   2 25   3 21   4 15   5 10   7 5   9 1   Part (b) Find the IQR and limits for outliers. IQR        lower limit for outliers        upper limit for outliers        Using the IQR method, are there any outliers in the data? (Select all that apply.) Yes, the twenty-four values of 1 book.Yes, the eighteen data values of 0 books.Yes, the five data values of 7 books.Yes, the ten data values of 5 books.No, there are no outliers.Yes, the one data value of 9 books. Part (c) If a data value is identified as an outlier, what should be done about it?

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Suppose that a publisher conducted a survey asking adult consumers the number of fiction paperback books they had purchased in the previous month. The results are summarized in the table below.
# of books Frequency Relative Frequency
0 18  
1 24  
2 25  
3 21  
4 15  
5 10  
7 5  
9 1  
  • Part (a)

    Fill in the relative frequency for each group. (Round your answers to four decimal places.)
    # of books Frequency Relative Frequency
    0 18  
    1 24  
    2 25  
    3 21  
    4 15  
    5 10  
    7 5  
    9 1  
  • Part (b)

    Find the IQR and limits for outliers.
    IQR       
    lower limit for outliers       
    upper limit for outliers       

    Using the IQR method, are there any outliers in the data? (Select all that apply.)
    Yes, the twenty-four values of 1 book.Yes, the eighteen data values of 0 books.Yes, the five data values of 7 books.Yes, the ten data values of 5 books.No, there are no outliers.Yes, the one data value of 9 books.
  • Part (c)

    If a data value is identified as an outlier, what should be done about it?

     

  • Part (d)

    Are any data values further than 2 standard deviations away from the mean? In some situations, statisticians may use this criteria to identify data values that are unusual, compared to the other data values. (Note that this criteria is most appropriate to use for data that is mound-shaped and symmetric, rather than for skewed data. Round your answers to two decimal places.)
    x − 2s =  
    x + 2s =  

    What data points fall beyond two standard deviations? (Select all that apply.)
    the twenty-four values of 1 book
    the five data values of 7 books
    the ten data values of 5 booksnone of the data points
    the eighteen data values of 0 books
    the one data value of 9 books
  • Part (e)

    Does the IQR method and the standard deviation method for determining outliers give the same answer?
    Yes or No    ?

Part (f)

Examine the shape of the data. Which method for determining outliers, IQR or standard deviation, gives a more appropriate result for this data?
  • the IQR method
  • the standard deviation method    

Part (g)

Based on the shape of the data, which is the most appropriate measure of center for this data: mean or median?
  • mean
  • median    
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