Data Set 15 in Appendix B includes the times required for flights to taxi out for takeoff. All of the flights are American Airlines flights from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles and they all occurred in January of a recent year. The 48 taxi-out times are depicted in the histogram and normal quantile plot shown below. Based on those graphs, does it appear that the taxi-out times are from a population having a normal distribution? Give an explanation for the distribution shown. Do the taxi-out times appear to satisfy the requirements necessary for construction of a confidence interval estimate of the standard deviation of the population of all such times?

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