The Men's Giant Slalom skiing event consists of two runs whose times are added together for a

Question:

The Men's Giant Slalom skiing event consists of two runs whose times are added together for a final score. Two displays of the giant slalom times in the 2010 Winter Olympics are shown below.

a) What features of the distribution can you see in both the histogram and the boxplot?
b) What summary statistic would you choose to summarize the center of this distribution? Why?
c) What summary statistic would you choose to summarize the spread of this distribution? Why?

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