The insurance Institute for Highway Safety publishes data on the total damage caused by compact automobiles in a series of controlled, low-speed collisions. The following costs are for a sample of 12 cars, in hundreds of dollars 10        6          8          11        4          3.5       7.5       8          9           6.8         7.2         4.6 Find the mean, mode, meadian. Create a boxplot and paste your results in your file. Give the five-number summary and discuss the range of the data set and if it is skewed left or right based on the boxplot. (Look at the position of the median in the box.) Based on the descriptive statistics, is the data left or right skewed (look at the mean and median)?

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The insurance Institute for Highway Safety publishes data on the total damage caused by compact automobiles in a series of controlled, low-speed collisions. The following costs are for a sample of 12 cars, in hundreds of dollars

10        6          8          11        4          3.5       7.5       8          9           6.8         7.2         4.6

Find the mean, mode, meadian. Create a boxplot and paste your results in your file. Give the five-number summary and discuss the range of the data set and if it is skewed left or right based on the boxplot. (Look at the position of the median in the box.) Based on the descriptive statistics, is the data left or right skewed (look at the mean and median)?

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