Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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Cumulative Assessment

Exercise 3 Page 374

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a Consider the given box-and-whisker plot.
box and whisker plot

Note that the right whisker is longer than the left whisker and most of the data is on the left side of the plot. Therefore, the distribution is skewed right.

b Consider the given box-and-whisker plot.
box and whisker plot

Note that the length of the box and whisker to the left of the median are approximately equal to the box and whisker to the right of the median. Therefore, the distribution is approximately symmetric.

c Consider the given histogram.
Histogram

Note that most of the data are on the right and the tail of the graph extends to the left. Therefore, the distribution is skewed left.

d Consider the given histogram.
Histogram

Note that most of the data are on the left and the tail of the graph extends to the right. Therefore, the distribution is skewed right.