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2.3 Exercise 18

Avg difficulty 2.5

A college statistics instructor is investigating the amount of time students spend working on a final project in the course. The instructor would like students to spend approximately 3 to 4 hours as the typical amount of time to be spent on the project. The instructor collects data from a random sample of 10 students for the number of hours spent working on the final project. The results obtained are as follows:

2 hours; 3 hours; 5 hours; 3 hours; 4 hours;

4 hours; 3 hours; 11 hours; 3 hours; 2 hours.

  1. Determine the following five values: Min, Q1, Med, Q3, Max.
  2. Should the instructor modify the final project or leave as is?

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