Exercise: Heights of students

The following graph shows the distribution of the heights of 120 female biomedical sciences, medical, nursing, physiotherapy, and radiography students:

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Questions

1. What kind of variable is height?

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2. What kind of graph is this?

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3. Where are the mode, the lower tail and the upper tail of this distribution?

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4. How would you describe the shape of the distribution and why?

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5. From the graph, approximately what would you estimate the median and the first and third quartiles to be? Where would they appear along the horizontal axis?

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6. From the graph, approximately what would you estimate the mean and the standard deviation to be? Where would they appear along the horizontal axis?

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