Students in a statistics class wrote as many letters of the alphabet as they cou

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Students in a statistics class wrote as many letters of the alphabet as they could in 15 seconds using their nondominant hand. The figure for this exercise is a boxplot that compares the number of letters written by males and females in the sample (Data source: letters dataset on the companion website). a. What is the median number of letters written by females? b. What is the median for males? c. Explain whether the interquartile range is larger for males or for females. d. Find the value of the range for males. e. Find the value of the range for females.

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d. The interval for males is (10,18)

e. The interval for females is (10,15)

Median is the middle value.

a. Median for females = (10+12.5)/2 = 12.5

b. Median for males = (10+18)/2 = 14

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