The accompanying histograms show the number of pairs of shoes reported for 314 m

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The accompanying histograms show the number of pairs of shoes reported for 314 males and for 304 females. Descriptive statistics are also shown. Complete parts (a) through (d) below Interquartile range ms Variable N Mean StDev Minimum Q1 Median Q3 Maximum Female 304 2839 2208 100 1125 21.00 36.00 100.00 24.75 Male 314 12.038 12 828 1.000 5.000 6000 10.000 100.000 5000 Click the icon to view the histograms of the number of pairs of shoes for men and women. a Describe the shape of each histogram The histogram for the men's distribution of data is b. Because of the shapes, what measures of the center should be compared, the means or the medians? Decause of the shapes of the distributions, the men's measure of center, the Enter your answer in each of the answer boxes. ents | The histogramfor the women's distribution of data is cess bra I should be compared to the women measure of center, the

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a) Skewed, skewed. Because mean of the data is not equal to median of th data

b) Because of the shape , we have to compare means rather than median.

c) The IQR is preferred to the standard deviation s when the distribution is very highly skewed or there are severe outliers, Here distribution is skewed so IQR is preferred

d) Female center is highre than male center

Spread of male is higher than spread of female

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