EP INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY+STAT.
EP INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY+STAT.
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Author: Mendenhall
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Chapter 1.5, Problem 1.23E

Cheeseburgers Create a dotplot for the number of cheeseburgers consumed in a given week by 10 college students.

5  4  2  1

3  4  2  7

a. How would you describe the shape of the distribution?

b. What proportion of the students ate more than 4 cheeseburgers that week?

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