Question: 3.45 Are the data Normal? Monsoon rains. Here are the amounts of summer monsoon rainfall (millimeters) for India in the 100 years 1901 to 2000:

3.45 Are the data Normal? Monsoon rains. Here are the amounts of summer monsoon rainfall (millimeters) for India in the 100 years 1901 to 2000:"

722.4 736.8 866.2 877.6 728.7 739.2 1020.5 887.0 852.4 784.7 792.2 806.4 869.4 803.8 958.1 793.3 810.0 653.1 735.6 785.0 861.3 784.8 823.5 976.2 868.6 923.4 858.1 913.6 955.9 896.6 750.6 898.5 863.0 913.8 920.8 885.8 922.8 748.3 836.9 938.4 716.8 781.0 804.0 843.9 911.3 930.5 709.6 963.0 760.0 826.4 885.5 951.1 903.1 908.7 904.0 983.6 740.2 857.0 743.2 857.3 777.9 1004.7 853.5 842.4 945.9 789.0 860.3 883.4 697.4 870.5 897.5 651.2 768.2 908.6 874.3 889.6 754.8 909.5 961.7 873.8 889.6 885.0 821.5 789.9 904.2 944.3 831.3 708.0 866.9 827.0 935.4 719.4 804.9 853.6 877.3 839.9 940.0 882.9 908.8 770.2

(a) Make a histogram of these rainfall amounts. Find the mean and the median.

(b) Although the distribution is reasonably Normal, your work shows some departure from Normality. In what way are the data not Normal?

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