The Basic Practice of Statistics 7th Edition

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

Chapter 2 - Describing Distributions with Numbers - Apply Your Knowledge - Page 60: 2.11

Answer

$\bar x_\approx7.50, s_\approx2.03$ see below.

Work Step by Step

1. Based on the given data sets, we can find: $\bar x_1\approx7.50, s_1\approx2.03$ $\bar x_2\approx7.50, s_2\approx2.03$ and we can see that they are the same. 2. See figure for the stem plots of each data set. 3. We can see that, even with the same mean value and standard deviation, the shapes of the plots are very different, where the first one is left skewed while the second one is right skewed.
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