1.Outliers have more influence on the standard deviation than on the inter-quart

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1.Outliers have more influence on the standard deviation than on the inter-quartile range.

a. true

b. false

2.A standard deviation of 0 means that all of the numbers in the list are the same.

a. true

b. false

3. Workers at a particular mining site receive an average of 35 days paid vacation, which is lower than the national average. The manager of this plant is under pressure from a local union to increase the amount of paid time off. However, he does not want to give more days off to the workers because that would be costly. Instead he decides he should ffire 10 employees in such a way as to raise the average number of days off that are reported by his employees. In order to achieve this goal, should he fire employees who have the most number of days off, least number of days off, or those who have about the average number of days off?

a. Most number of days off

b. Least number of days off

c. Average number of days off

Explanation / Answer

1.Outliers have more influence on the standard deviation than on the inter-quartile range.

a. true

2.A standard deviation of 0 means that all of the numbers in the list are the same.

a. true

3.

b. Least number of days off

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