The following boxplot shows the 2008 payrolls (i.e., how much money was paid to

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The following boxplot shows the 2008 payrolls (i.e., how much money was paid to all the team's players in millions of dollars) for each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams. In 2008, the Florida Marlins had the lowest payroll at about In 2008, the NY Yankees had the highest payroll at about What is the approximate range of these data? what percentage of the teams had payrolls between approximately $80 million and $120 million What percentage of the teams had payrolls below $66 million what appears to be the shape of the distribution? Explain Payroll is what type of variable? (Quantitative or qualitative). What is the level of measurement of payroll?

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here from given graph minimum value =25 , maximum value =137.5

median =80 ; quartile 1 =66 and quartile 3 =120

a) lowest payroll is minimum value =25 million dollars

b)highest payroll is maximum =at about 137.5 million dollars

c)range =maximum-minimum =137.5-25 =112.5 million dollars

d)as this data is b/w median and Q3 ; hence 25% values

e) as this is below Q1, hence 25%

f)as median is relatively on the left side, hence the distribution is skewed to the right

therefore it is positively skewed distribution

g)payroll is quantitative variable

h) level of measurement =ratio

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