A survey conducted in March 2015 asked 1060 teens to estimate, on average, the number of friends

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A survey conducted in March 2015 asked 1060 teens to estimate, on average, the number of friends they had made online. While 43% had not made any friends online, a small number of the teens had made many friends online.

(a) Do you expect the distribution of number of friends made online to be symmetric, skewed to the right, or skewed to the left? 

(b) Two measures of center for this distribution are 1 friend and 5.3 friends. Which is most likely to be the mean and which is most likely to be the median? Explain your reasoning.

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Statistics Unlocking The Power Of Data

ISBN: 9781119682219

3rd Edition

Authors: Robin H Lock, Patti Frazer Lock, Kari Lock Morgan, Eric F Lock, Dennis F Lock

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