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Describing Quantitative Data

This comprehensive analysis explores how to utilize numerical information to describe a data distribution's characteristics, including shape, spread, center, and outliers. It covers various practical examples, such as calculating the number of unique outfits Mark can create with his clothing, analyzing the caloric content of chocolate chip cookies through median and mean calculations, assessing salary distributions, and examining housing costs in a specific area. The findings will help determine the most informative measurement—median or mean—when making decisions in purchases.

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Describing Quantitative Data

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  1. Describing Quantitative Data September 10,2013 EQ: How do we use numerical information about a distribution's shape, spread, center, and outliers to describe special features of the data? Warm-up Mark had 4 pairs of pants, 6 shirts, 5 ties, and 2 pairs of shoes. How many different outfits of 1 pair of pants, 1 shirt, 1 tie, and 1 pair of shoes can Mark make?

  2. Chocolate Chip Cookies 30 gram servings of cookies and their caloric content Find the median and mean. What type of shape do you think the above information will form? Create a box and whisker plot

  3. Salary vs. Employees Find the mean and median. Is the date skewed or not? Explain Create the box and whisker plot.

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  6. HOMEWORK http://www.realestate.com Using the above website complete the following: 1. Set your search for 19709. 2. Search housing costs that have 3+ bedrooms. 3. Create a box and whisker plot 4. Find the median and mean. 5. Using the above information answer the following: "Is it better to know the median price of homes or the mean price of homes when purchasing a new home?"

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