2.24 How often do students read the newspaper? Question 14 on the class survey (Activity 3 in Chapter 1) asked,

“Estimate the number of times a week, on average, that you read a daily newspaper.”

a. Is this variable continuous or discrete? Explain.

b. The histogram shown gives results of this variable when this survey was administered to a class of 36 University of Georgia students. Report the (i) minimum response,

(ii) maximum response, (iii) number of students who did not read the newspaper at all, and (iv) mode.

c. Describe the shape of the distribution.

Frequency 7 8965432- 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Number Times/Week Read Newspaper