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Relative Frequency<br />

Street Lengths<br />

Mean 2231.4<br />

Standard Error 238.4<br />

Median 2100.0<br />

Mode 960.0<br />

Standard Deviation 1634.1<br />

Sample Variance 2670328.9<br />

Kurtosis -0.2<br />

Skewness 0.8<br />

Range 5750.0<br />

M<strong>in</strong>imum 100.0<br />

Maximum 5850.0<br />

Sum 104874.0<br />

Count 47.0<br />

d. The distribution is strongly skewed to the right.<br />

e.<br />

f.<br />

This means that a street length of 79.6 feet would be about 1.3 standard deviations<br />

below the mean.<br />

Street Length<br />

35.00%<br />

30.00%<br />

25.00%<br />

20.00%<br />

15.00%<br />

10.00%<br />

5.00%<br />

0.00%<br />

100-1099 1100-2099 2100-3099 3100-4099 4100-5099 5100-6099<br />

Feet<br />

4. Answers vary;<br />

By C.T. . / of all street lengths <strong>in</strong> the sample are guaranteed to<br />

fall with<strong>in</strong> 1.3 standard deviations of the mean. This is not unusual.<br />

<strong>Statistics</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Decision</strong>-<strong>Mak<strong>in</strong>g</strong> <strong>in</strong> Bus<strong>in</strong>ess © Milos Podmanik Page 224

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