In commercials for Bounty paper towels, the manufacturer claims that they are the “quicker picker-upper,” but are they also the stronger picker-upper? Two of Mr. Tabor’s statistics students, Wesley and Maverick, decided to find out. They selected a random sample of 30 Bounty paper towels and a random sample of 30 generic paper towels and measured their strength when wet. To do this, they uniformly soaked each paper towel with 4 ounces of water, held two opposite edges of the paper towel, and counted how many quarters each paper towel could hold until ripping, alternating brands. The data are displayed in the relative frequency histograms. Compare the distributions.

a. Would it be appropriate to use frequency histograms instead of relative frequency histograms in this setting? Explain why or why not.

b. Compare the distributions of number of quarters until breaking for the two paper towel brands.

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30% 20% 10% 0% 30% 20% - 10% - 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 Number of quarters purig Bounty Generic