The Men’s Giant Slalom skiing event consists of two runs whose times are added together for a final score. Two displays of the giant slalom times in the 2014 Winter Olympics at Sochi are shown below.

a) What features of the distribution can you see in both the histogram and the boxplot?
b) What summary statistic would you choose to summarize the center of this distribution? Why?
c) What summary statistic would you choose to summarize the spread of this distribution? Why?

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30 25 20 15 # 10 5 # of Skiers 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 Slalom Times (sec) Seconds 220 210 200 190 180 170 160 O Slalom Times