The back to back stem plot below shows the heights (in centimeters) of the players on the University of Maryland women's basketball and field hockey teams.
Fill in the blanks.
The center of the basketball team distribution is (blank) the center of the field hockey team distribution.
The variability in the basketball team distribution is (blank) the variability in the field hockey team distribution.
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Answer:
The center of the basketball team distribution is greater than the center of the field hockey team distribution.
The center of the basketball team distribution is greater than the variability in the field hockey distribution.
Step-by-step explanation:
For the first one if you simply go through and find the median, i just marked one from each side (Least side and greatest side) till i found the middle or in this case the two middles. If you are working with an odd number of data points then you just divide that number by two, then go to that position in the data set. If you're working with an even number then you need to take how many data points you have and divide by two, then round that number up and go to that position. Then you take that number and the next highest number and average them (I show you what I mean right after this)
First Blank's work:
(Finding the median with an even number of data) For the basketball team the two middle values are 188 and 188. You add them and then divide by two (average them) . Making your median for the Basket ball team 188.
(Finding the median with an odd number of data) For the Field hockey team you do the same thing but you only have one value in the middle, 163.
When given our two centers or, medians you can see that the Basketball team's median is greater than the field hockey's median.
Second Blank's Work:
When we say variability I think about how spread out each data point would be on a line. Basket ball they seem to have pretty normal distribution, but field hockey has a lot of repeating numbers, more than what would be considered normal.
There you go-- I'm not the best at explaining things and I'm not the smartest person ever but I hope this helps a little (?)
Answer:
Double Right
Step-by-step explanation: