The figure is a histogram of the number of servings of fruit per day claimed by 74 seventeen-year-old girls. 2 3 4 5 Servings of fruit per day 0 1 7 8 (a) With a little care, you can find the median and the quartiles from the histogram. What are these numbers? (Enter your answer rounded to a whole number.) servings Number of subjects

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Which of the statements correctly describes the relationship between the mean and median in the histogram of the number of servings of fruit per day claimed by the 7474 seventeen‑year‑old girls?
 
A) The mean and median are about equal because the distribution is right‑skewed.
 
B) The mean is larger than the median because the distribution is right‑skewed.
 
C) The median is larger than the mean because the distribution is right‑skewed.
 
D) There is not enough information to tell us about the relationship between the mean and median in the histogram.
 
(c) In general, you cannot find the exact values of median, quartiles, or mean from the histogram.
 
What is special about the histogram of the number of servings of fruit that allows you to do this? Select an answer choice.
 
A) We know exactly how many observations fall in each bin because of the way the bins are constructed.
 
B) The sample size only consists of only 74 observations. Because the sample size is small, we can find the exact values.
 
C) The distribution is right‑skewed.
 
D) There is nothing special about the histogram, you can always find exact values for the median, quartiles, or mean.
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(b) You can also find the mean number of servings of fruit claimed per day from the histogram. First use the information
in the histogram to compute the sum of the 74 observations, and then use this to compute the mean. (Enter your answer
rounded to two decimal places.)
mean =
servings
Transcribed Image Text:median = servings Q3 servings (b) You can also find the mean number of servings of fruit claimed per day from the histogram. First use the information in the histogram to compute the sum of the 74 observations, and then use this to compute the mean. (Enter your answer rounded to two decimal places.) mean = servings
The figure is a histogram of the number of servings of fruit per day claimed by 74 seventeen-year-old girls.
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(a) With a little care, you can find the median and the quartiles from the histogram. What are these numbers? (Enter your
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Transcribed Image Text:The figure is a histogram of the number of servings of fruit per day claimed by 74 seventeen-year-old girls. 7 8 2 3 4 Servings of fruit per day 1 (a) With a little care, you can find the median and the quartiles from the histogram. What are these numbers? (Enter your answer rounded to a whole number.) servings Q1 Nimber of subjects 15 5.
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