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35. You are giving a talk about the decay of the American family. You want to show by a graph how the numberof divorces has increased between 1970 and 2000. What type of graph should you draw?(a) A bar graph.(b) A boxplot.(c) A histogram.(d) A line graph.(e) A pie chart.36. You want to make a graph to display the distribution of the salaries of the 1500 professors at a largeuniversity. The best choice is(a) a boxplot.(b) a histogram.(c) a line plot.(d) a pie chart.(e) a stemplot.37. When dealing with financial data (such as salaries or lawsuit settlements), we often find that the shape of thedistribution is ________ . When the distribution has this shape, the ________ is pulled toward the long tail ofthe distribution, but the _______ is less affected. The sequence of words to correctly complete this statement is:(a) right skewed, median, mean.(b) left skewed, mean, median.(c) right skewed, mean, standard deviation.(d) right skewed, mean, median.(e) roughly symmetric, mean, correlation.38. Your score on the statistics final exam is at the 70th percentile of the scores for the class. Your score lies(a) below the lower quartile.(b) between the lower quartile and the median.(c) between the median and the third quartile.(d) above the third quartile.(e) Can't tell which quarter your score lies in.39. For categorical variables (like a person's occupation or sex) it only makes sense to speak of________ . It makes no sense to speak of the ________ or the ________ sex. The sequence of words tocorrectly complete this statement is(a) mean, standardized, median(b) median, mean, standard deviation(c) standard deviation, mean, median(d) counts or percents, mean, median40. What is the first quartile of the observations 2, -2, 1, -1, 1, 0, 0, 3, 0, 2, 3?(a) -1 (b) 0 (c) 1 (d) 2