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joesmith1212

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Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it takes a student to find a parking spot. An administrator inconspicuously followed 280 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. The times had a distribution that was . Based on this information, discuss the relationship between the mean and the median for the 280 times collected.
 
  Answer the question True or False.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

An insurance company looks at many factors when determining how much insurance will cost for a home. Two of the factors are listed below:
 
  A: The home's roof is less than 10 years old
  B: The home has a security system
 
  In the words of the problem, define the event .
 
  A) The home is less than 10 years old B) The home does not have a security system
  C) The home has a security system D) The home is not less than 10 years old



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mrphibs

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Answer to Question 1

Since the distribution is skewed to the left, we know that the median time will exceed the mean time.

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joesmith1212

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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
:D TYSM


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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