EP INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY+STAT.
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Author: Mendenhall
Publisher: CENGAGE L
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Chapter 2, Problem 2.67SE
Polluted Seawater Petroleum pollution in seasand oceans stimulates the growth of some types ofbacteria. A count of petroleumlytic micro-organisms (bacteria per 100 milliliters) in 10 portions of seawatergave these readings:
49, 70, 54, 67, 59, 40, 61, 69, 71, 52
- Guess the value for s using the rangeapproximation.
- Calculate
- Construct a box plot for the data and use it to describe the data distribution.
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