Literacy Rate Figure 2.39 gives a boxplot showing the literacy rate of the countries of the world.

Figure 2.39 Literacy rate for countries of the world

(a) Describe the shape of the distribution.

(b) The middle half of all literacy rates are between approximately what two values?

(c) Approximate the five-number summary from the boxplot.

(d) Some countries did not have data on literacy rate available from the World Bank. Do you suspect the true median is higher or lower than that shown on the boxplot from the available data? Why?

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