Statistics Through Applications
Statistics Through Applications
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ISBN: 9781429219747
Author: Daren S. Starnes, David Moore, Dan Yates
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
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Chapter 2.3, Problem 2.61E

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To Explain: the reason of misleading of the given graph.

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  Statistics Through Applications, Chapter 2.3, Problem 2.61E , additional homework tip  1

By seeing the given graph, it is observed that it is misleading because on y axis in the graph that it is start from the 196 cholesterol which is not corresponds to 0 that is the reason which will goes to mislead.

(b)

To determine

To construct: the new graph which is not misleading and concludes about the effect of eating Quaker Oats on cholesterol reduction.

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  Statistics Through Applications, Chapter 2.3, Problem 2.61E , additional homework tip  2

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Figure 2

  Statistics Through Applications, Chapter 2.3, Problem 2.61E , additional homework tip  3

By seeing the given graph figure number 1, it is observed that it is misleading because on y axis in the graph figure number 1 it is start from 196 cholesterol So drawing new graph on the basis of given data which is in figure 2 which in not misleading because it is start from 0.

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