Elementary Statistics (12th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321836960
ISBN 13: 978-0-32183-696-0

Chapter 12 - Analysis of Variance - Review - Cumulative Review Exercises - Page 631: 9

Answer

a)Rectangle, yes. b)Not normal.

Work Step by Step

a )If the lottery works correctly, then each digit should be equally likely and hence the distribution should be uniform. Then the shape of the histogram should roughly be a rectangle (each bar has to have roughly the same height). The given distribution is approximately a rectangle and hence approximately uniform. b) If the histogram is approximately bell.shaped then the distribution is normal, which here is not true, hence it is not normal.
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