The Solomon Islands are located northeast of Australia. The numbers of bird species per island are described by the density histogram in Fig. 137.

a. Describe the shape of the distribution.
b. Identify the class that contains the 50th percentile, which is a measure of the center.
c. Find the percentile of Malaita Island€™s 69 bird species.
d. The number of bird species on Samarai Island is at the 31st percentile. Estimate the number of bird species on the island.

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Birds on Solomon Islands 0.02 2oo 0.01 0.19 0.17 0.12 0.13 0.15 0.08 0.08 0.06 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Number of bird species per island