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2.3 Exercise 21

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  1. For runners in a race, a higher speed means a faster run. Is it more desirable to have a speed with a high or a low percentile when running a race?
  2. The 40th percentile of speeds in a particular race is 7.5 miles per hour. Write a sentence interpreting the 40th percentile in the context of the situation.

OpenStax Statistics, 2.3 Measures of the Location of the Data, exercise 21

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