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649896937097746763718057807743677852659253658762654364666450Indicate the number of bins for your histogram: ________What size should your intervals be? Show your calculations: ______________________________

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Hello there. To solve this question, we have to remember some properties about histograms.

Given the following data, we want to determine:

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a) The number of bins in the histogram

For this, we use the following formula:


\text{bins}=1+\lceil\log_2(n)\rceil

In this case, we have 30 values, hence


\text{b}\imaginaryI\text{ns}=1+\operatorname{\lceil}\operatorname{\log}_2(30)\operatorname{\rceil}\approx1+5=6

b) What size should your intervals be?

For this, we want to determine the width of a bin.

Using the following formula:


\text{ bin width }=(\max(x)-\min(x))/(bins)

Where max(x) represents the maximum value in the data set, min(x) is the minimum value and bins is the number we found on a).

We get that max(x) = 98 and min(x) = 43, hence


\text{ bin width }=(98-43)/(6)=(55)/(6)\approx9.16

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