Question

A random sample of 15 college students were asked "How many hours per week typically do you work outside the home?" Their responsos are shown on the right: Determine the shape of the distribution of hours worked by a drawing a frequency histogram and computing the mean and median.

Answer 1

To determine the shape of the distribution, create a frequency histogram and compute the mean and median.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine the shape of the distribution of hours worked by the college students, we can create a frequency histogram based on the given responses. The frequency histogram will show the number of students who worked a certain number of hours per week. By examining the shape of the histogram, we can determine the shape of the distribution.

To compute the mean, we sum up all the responses and divide by the total number of students (15). To compute the median, we arrange the responses in ascending order and find the middle value. If there are an odd number of responses, the median is the middle value. If there are an even number of responses, the median is the average of the two middle values.