Question: Using the data from Exercise 6-22 on cloud seeding, (a) Find the median and quartiles for the unseeded cloud data. (b) Find the median and

Using the data from Exercise 6-22 on cloud seeding,

(a) Find the median and quartiles for the unseeded cloud data.

(b) Find the median and quartiles for the seeded cloud data.

(c) Make two side-by-side box plots, one for each group on the same plot.

(d) Compare the distributions from what you can see in the side-by-side box plots.

Data from 6-22

Cloud seeding, a process in which chemicals such as silver iodide and frozen carbon dioxide are introduced by aircraft into clouds to promote rainfall was widely used in the 20th century.
Recent research has questioned its effectiveness [Journal of Atmospheric Research (2010, Vol. 97 (2), pp. 513– 525)]. An experiment was performed by randomly assigning 52 clouds to be seeded or not. The amount of rain generated was then measured in acre-feet. Here are the data for the unseeded and seeded clouds:
Unseeded:
81.2 26.1 95.0 41.1 28.6 21.7 11.5 68.5 345.5 321.2 1202.6 1.0 4.9 163.0 372.4 244.3 47.3 87.0 26.3 24.4 830.1 4.9 36.6 147.8 17.3 29.0
Seeded:
274.7 302.8 242.5 255.0 17.5 115.3 31.4 703.4 334.1 1697.8 118.3 198.6 129.6 274.7 119.0 1656.0 7.7 430.0 40.6 92.4 200.7 32.7 4.1 978.0 489.1 2745.6

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