The graph below displays the distribution of word lengths (number of letters) in the Gettysburg Address, which you explored in Exploration 2.1A.

a. Describe the shape of this distribution.
b. Based on this shape, do you expect the median to be less than the mean, greater than the mean, or very close to the mean? Explain.

The following table lists how oft en each of the word lengths appears for these 268 words.

c. Determine the median word length of these 268 words.
d. Calculate the five-number summary of the word lengths.

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H = 4.29 = 2.12 T. 1 2 3 4T 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4.29 Letters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 7 49 54 59 34 27 15 6 10 4 Word length Number of words 3 3.