Intro Stats, Books a la Carte Edition (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134210285
Author: Richard D. De Veaux, Paul Velleman, David E. Bock
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 2, Problem 64E
Golf drives 2015 The display shows the average drive distance (in yards) for 199 professional golfers during a week on the men’s PGA tour in 2015.
- a) Describe this distribution.
- b) Approximately what proportion of professional male golfers drive, on average, 280 yards or less?
- c) Estimate the
mean by examining the histogram. - d) Do you expect the mean to be smaller than, approximately equal to, or larger than the median? Why?
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