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2.2 Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

The following data are the number of sports played by 50 student athletes. The number of sports is discrete data since sports are counted.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Twenty student athletes play one sport. Twenty-two student athletes play two sports. Eight student athletes play three sports. Calculate a desired bin size for the data. Create a histogram and clearly label the endpoints of the intervals.

OpenStax Statistics, 2.2 Histograms, Frequency Polygons, and Time Series Graphs, exercise 3

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