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Exercise 12

Avg difficulty 2.5

The frequency table below shows the number of women's shoes that were sold in an hour at a local shoe store.

  1. Would you treat this data as categorical or quantitative?

  2. How would the bar graph be different from the histogram?

  3. Treat the data as quantitative and find the mean and the median. Are these useful statistics?

    Shoe SizeFrequency
    54
    64
    76
    86
    95

Lee et al., Math in Society, §3.3 Summary Statistics: Measures of Center, Exercise 12

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