College Statistics – Exercise 2

Instructions: Answer the questions below on a clean sheet of paper. Write your name on
the top left corner of each paper. Scan or take a photo of you answer sheets and submit to
sw110.csu@gmail.com with the subject format “SW110A/B_SURNAME_EXERCISE2”.
For example, SW110B_CRUZ_EXERCISE2. Answers should be submitted no later than
Thursday, April 14, 2022, before the start of our class. Late submissions will have
deductions. Submissions are accepted until April 21, 2022 only.

Here is a set of data.

42, 34, 47, 38, 43, 35, 40, 63, 45, 49, 41, 40, 58, 47, 45, 37

1) What is the 5-number summary for this data?

2) Construct a box-plot for this data.

3) What is the IQR?

4) Identify any outliers or explain why there are none.

5) Calculate the mean and standard deviation.

6) Comment on the shape of the distribution of data.

7) Does the relative size of the mean and median agree with what you said about the shape?
Explain.

8) What is the percentile rank of the number 38 in this data set?

9) What number is at the 69th percentile?