Question

1. Travis is testing how far he can throw a baseball to prepare himself for the season. He makes 16
throws and records the length of each throw in feet. The results are provided in the accompanying table.
236 240 232 242 238 235 228 245
247 239 234 238 241 227 243 238
Travis says that the histogram provided below could be used to represent the data.
Show whether the histogram Travis created is correct and, if not, explain how the histogram could be corrected.

Answer 1

1. For a project, Fay kept track of the total annual amount of precipitation in inches for two cities over the last 12
years. The results are shown in the table below.

City A 41.50 69.43 48.15 39.23 37.03 66.02 47.62 68.38 38.69 52.48 70.03 43.74
City M 48.14 61.59 44.05 33.14 32.41 72.92 48.49 50.21 33.70 48.69 49.06 44.47
Find the mean and standard deviation for each city, and then compare the means and standard deviations. Round the means and standard deviations to two decimal places.