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2.7 Exercise 13

Avg difficulty 2.5

Use the following information to answer the next two exercises. The following data are the distances between 20 retail stores and a large distribution center. The distances are in miles.
29, 37, 38, 40, 58, 67, 68, 69, 76, 86, 87, 95, 96, 96, 99, 106, 112, 127, 145, 150

Two baseball players, Fredo and Karl, on different teams wanted to find out who had the higher batting average when compared to his team. Which baseball player had the higher batting average when compared to his team?

Baseball Player Batting Average Team Batting Average Team Standard Deviation
Fredo .158 .166 .012
Karl .177 .189 .015

OpenStax Statistics, 2.7 Measures of the Spread of the Data, exercise 13

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