Chapter 4 problems

Folks! Follow directions! You were supposed to "use Minitab to construct a histogram, and calculate the mean and median. Compare the relative values of the mean and median. How are these related to the shape of the histogram?"

• 4.15:

  

  For this problem there were actually two histograms to construct and analyze. They were essentially the same, however.

• 4.16:

  

  I'd say that this distribution is symmetric. You'll never get one that's perfectly symmetric from real data. The mean and median are really quite close, especially considering the standard deviation in this case....