4) A soft-drink bottling company fills and ships soda in plastic bottles with a

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4) A soft-drink bottling company fills and ships soda in plastic bottles with a target volume of 354 milliliters. The filling machinery does not deliver a perfectly consistent volume of liquid to each bottle, and the three quartiles for the fill volume are 01-352, 02-356, and 03-359. A fill volume of 344 mL is considered low. Would a fill volume of 344 mL be considere an outlier? A) No B) Yes 5) Given the following boxplot where m is the median value, what statement could be made about the distribution of the data? A) The distribution is positively skewed. B) The distribution is approximately symmetric. C) The data are nominal and consequently can not be identified as symmetric or skewed ) The distribution is negatively skewed.

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4) A soft-drink bottling company fills and ships soda in plastic bottles with a target volume of 354 milliliters. The filling machinery does not deliver a perfectly consistent volume of liquid to each bottle, and the three quartiles for the fill volume are 01-352, 02-356, and 03-359. A fill volume of 344 mL is considered low. Would a fill volume of 344 mL be considere an outlier? A) No B) Yes 5) Given the following boxplot where m is the median value, what statement could be made about the distribution of the data? A) The distribution is positively skewed. B) The distribution is approximately symmetric. C) The data are nominal and consequently can not be identified as symmetric or skewed ) The distribution is negatively skewed.

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