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colton

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A professor is interested in the overall pattern of the scores from an exam he recently gave. Which of the following would be most useful to him?
 
  a. the mean exam score
  b. the frequency distribution of the exam scores
  c. the range of the exam scores
  d. the variance of the exam scores

Question 2

A visual display that preserves the original numbers while still providing a visual summary of the data is the
 
  a. frequency polygon.
  b. stem-and-leaf chart.
  c. histogram.
  d. frequency distribution.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b



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