Stats Modeling the World, 4th Edition

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ISBN 10: 0133151549
ISBN 13: 978-0-13315-154-1

Chapter 3 - Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data - Exercises - Page 76: 24

Answer

The distribution is unimodal and symmetric. Hence, it follows that standard deviation and mean can both be used to summarize the distribution. (After all, the mean is a good measurement when the distribution is symmetric since the mean and median will be close to each other.)

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The distribution is unimodal and symmetric. Hence, it follows that standard deviation and mean can both be used to summarize the distribution. (After all, the mean is a good measurement when the distribution is symmetric since the mean and median will be close to each other.)
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