Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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Chapter 2 - Descriptive Statistics - Section 2.4 Measures of Variation - Exercises - Page 95: 20

Answer

Company C

Work Step by Step

You are more likely to get a higher offer from Company C, because the standard deviation is 2.3x higher than Company Dā€™s standard deviation. In other words, the two offers have the same mean, but C's offer has a larger variance, so you are more likely to obtain a higher salary value.
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