Question

A math teacher at George Washington Middle School asked boys in the 6th and 7th grades to report their shoe size. She used the results to create these histograms

Which conclusion best supported by the histograms?
A as boys get older, shoe sizes become more normally distributed with fewer large outliers.
B As boys get older, shoe size range, defined by the minimum and maximum, decreases
C As boys get older, shoe sizes increase and the distribution remains relatively unchanged.
D As boys get older, shoe size distribution becomes more spread with more large outliers

Answer 1

As boys gets older, shoe sizes becomes more normally distributed with fewer large outliers.

Explanation:

A visual analysi ls of the histogram distribution provided, we can observe that size distribution of 6 graders is positively skewed (right tailed) as outliers seems more to the right(large sizes). However, the second graph is balanced with a normal or symmetric distribution representing older age (7th graders). Hence, we can conclude that as the boys gets older, they attain normality in terms of their shoe sizes. And the outliers which are characterized by the first histogram having vanished or reduced.