. Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal, or bimodal? Symmetric or skewed? Explain why. (a) The number of songs that each student in your class has downloaded online (b) Cost of each order from a mail-order catalogue for clothing (c) Weights of bags of M&Ms that are labelled to contain 6 ounces (d) Heights of students in your class (e) Ages of shoppers in a convenience store near a university late Saturday night (f) Number of children of shoppers in a toy store (g) Amount of cash taken in by retail cashiers during a two-hour shift (h) Number of packages processed each day by Federal Express in their hub location in Memphis, Tennessee, during August and the four weeks before Christmas
3. Would you expect distributions of these variables to be uniform, unimodal, or bimodal? Symmetric or skewed? Explain why.
(a) The number of songs that each student in your class has downloaded online
(b) Cost of each order from a mail-order catalogue for clothing
(c) Weights of bags of M&Ms that are labelled to contain 6 ounces
(d) Heights of students in your class
(e) Ages of shoppers in a convenience store near a university late Saturday night
(f) Number of children of shoppers in a toy store
(g) Amount of cash taken in by retail cashiers during a two-hour shift
(h) Number of packages processed each day by Federal Express in their hub location in Memphis, Tennessee, during August and the four weeks before Christmas
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