Suggested answer to exercise: Height from the 2005 questionnaire, part 2, 1

Question 1: What do you think the mean height is?

Suggested answer

The mean height should be in the middle of this symmetrical distribution. It would be near the upper end of the interval 160 to 165, say 164 cm.

In fact, the mean is 164.5 cm.

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