The ages (in years) of tenured and tenure-eligible (TTE) female professors at 4-year colleges and universities are described by the relative frequency histogram in Fig. 125. The ages are rounded to the ones place.

a. Describe the shape of the distribution.
b. Which is larger, the mean or the median? Which is the better measure of the center? Explain.
c. Which class contains the median?
d. The median age of TTE male professors lies in the class 50€“55 years. Compare this with the result you found in part (c). What does your comparison mean in this situation?
e. A female professor who is 64 years in age is at what percentile?

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Ages of Female TTE Professors 0.2 e 0.15 90.1 0.17 一一70.15,016 0.13 0.13 0.11 0.09 2 0.05 0.02 0.03 0.01 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 Age (years)