Statistics students found the sugar content of breakfast cereals, in grams per serving, for those placed on

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Statistics students found the sugar content of breakfast cereals, in grams per serving, for those placed on the high shelves of the store versus the low shelves. The data file CerealSugar.txt has these results. Copy and paste this data set into the Descriptive Statistics applet.

a. If you want to compare the sugar content of cereals on high versus low shelves, what would be the explanatory variable and what would be the response.
b. Based on just how the distributions look, do you think there is an association between where the cereal is located and its sugar content? If so, in what way? Explain.
c. Find the mean grams of sugar per serving for the cereal on the low shelves and the mean for those on the high shelves. With this new information, do you think there is an association between where the cereal is located and its sugar content? Explain.
d. Find the median grams of sugar per serving for the cereal on the low shelves and the median for those on the high shelves. With this new information, do you think there is an association between where the cereal is located and its sugar content? Explain.
e. Are the median sugar contents between high and low shelved cereal farther apart or closer together than the means are?

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Introduction To Statistical Investigations

ISBN: 9781118172148

1st Edition

Authors: Beth L.Chance, George W.Cobb, Allan J.Rossman Nathan Tintle, Todd Swanson Soma Roy

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