Question 2 (1 mark) Attempt 1 The two boxplots below show the pecent of infants

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Question 2 (1 mark) Attempt 1 The two boxplots below show the pecent of infants breastfed by Caucasian and African-American mothers over a 20 year period (1982-2002) Boxplot for the percent of infants breastfed 60 50 40- 30- 20- 10 Caucasian African-American Based on the boxplots which statement is false? A O O B The shape of Caucasian infants is negatively skewed while that for African-American infants is approximately symmetric Median value of infants breastfed with Caucasian mothers is higher than infants of African-American mothers

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Option D is the correct answer. Because, shape of Caucasian infants is shown by boxplot is not positively skewed. Positively skewed means mean value of such distribution should be greater than median value. But in case of higher values set, this can change exactly opposite too. Therefore, Option D is false and hence correct answer is D.

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