Question: Case Study 1 : Mickey Mantle played with the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1968. He had the following number of home runs for

Case Study 1: Mickey Mantle played with the New York Yankees from 1951 through 1968. He had the following number of home runs for those years: 13, 23, 31, 27, 37, 52, 34, 42, 31, 40, 54, 30, 15, 35, 19, 23, 22, 18.

  1. Were any of these years outliers? Explain.

  1. The following stemplot describes the number or doubles hit by Mantle during his career. What is the interquartile range of this data?

Number of Doubles Hit (per season)

0

8

1

1 2 2 4 5 6 7 7 7

2

1 2 3 4 5 5 8

3

7

Stem:Tens Leaf: Ones

Case Study 2: On the first test of the semester, the class average was 72 with a standard deviation of 6.On the second test, the class average was 65 with a standard deviation of 8. Nathan scored 80 on the first test and 76 on the second. Compared to the rest of the class, on which test did Nathan do better?

Case Study 3: the following are the salaries, in millions of dollars, for members of the 2001 - 2002 Golden State Warriors: 6.2, 5.4, 5.4, 4.9, 4.4, 4.4, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 2.4, 2.3, 1.3, 0.3, 0.3. Which gives a better "picture" of these salaries, mean-based or median-based statistics? Explain.

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