The following data give the 2009 estimates of crude oil reserves (in billions of barrels) of Saudi

Question:

The following data give the 2009 estimates of crude oil reserves (in billions of barrels) of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Venezuela, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Libya, Nigeria, Canada, the United States, China, Brazil, and Mexico (source: www.eia.gov).

Prepare a box-and-whisker plot. Is the distribution of these data symmetric or skewed? Are there any outliers? If so, classify them as mild or extreme.

Distribution
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