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Message posted by Carol (via 152.163.207.59) on June 5, 2001 at 9:37 PM (ET)
An energency room records the following nomber of admissions for 30 Saturday nights during one calendar year.
38 46 46 43 35 48 48 56 48 44 58 48 58 44 36 48 38 38 52 37 32 50 37 40 60 51 42 38 28 45
Mean 44.4
Std. Dev. 19.6
Mode 48
Range 32
Low 28
Q1 38
Median 44.5
Q3 48
High 60
Does the data appear symetric or skewed?
I say it is skewed to the right
Thank You
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Re: Please Check my answers
Message posted by JG (via 128.8.21.44) on June 5, 2001 at 10:05 PM (ET)
The data are very symmetric. Remember that this is a sample and only populations can be exactly symetric.
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