The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

Published by W. H. Freeman
ISBN 10: 146414253X
ISBN 13: 978-1-46414-253-6

Chapter 3 - The Normal Distributions - Chapter 3 Exercises - Page 98: 3.48a

Answer

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Work Step by Step

The mean and the median are very close to each other. Furthermore, the distance between the first quartile and the median is: $5.44-5.05=0.39$ , the distance between the third quartile and the median is: $5.79-5.44=0.35$, thus the distribution seems to be very symmetric.
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