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On September 29,2005, John Roberts was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the United States. Since 1869 there have been nine justices at any one time on the Supreme Court of the United States: one chief justice and eight associate justices. (Prior to that time, the number of justices varied from six to ten.) From the court's inception in 1789 to the present day, 17 men have served as chief justice of the Supreme Court, including Justice Roberts. The previous 16 chief justices are listed in the table below, along with the length of their tenure (in days). This data was retrieved from the Web site of the Supreme Court (www.supremecourtus.gov).
chief justice tenure
John Jay 2079
John Rutledge 125
Oliver Ellsworth 1742
John Marshall 12542
Roger B. Taney 10425
Salmon P. Chase 3065
Morrison R. Waite 5133
Melville W. Fuller 7938
Edward D. White 3804
William Howard Taft 3129
Charles E. Hughes 4144
Harlan F. Stone 1754
Frederick M. Vinson 2633
Earl Warren 5740
Warren E. Burger 6304
William H. Rehnquist 6917
Compute each of the following summary statistics. Round your answers to the nearest day.
median =
5436.5
Incorrect days
IQR =
3852
Incorrect days
mean =
5300.12
Incorrect days
standard deviation

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