Beloware the results from a STAT 100 survey where students wereasked: How concer
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Question
Beloware the results from a STAT 100 survey where students wereasked: How concerned are you about your weight? Answer thequestion using a rating scale of 0 (not at all concerned) to 30(extremely concerned). Below is the five-number summary from thissample.
Five-Number Summary of Weight Concern Ratings
Lowest
QL
Median
QU
Highest
0
8
16
20
30
a. Which of the following two boxplots(Boxplot 1 or Boxplot 2) represents the results from this sample?Provide reasoning.
Figure A1. Boxplot 1
Figure A2. Boxplot 2
b. Below are the results for the weightconcern ratings when separated by gender. Use the followingside-by-side boxplot to make the appropriate four comparisons ofthe two samples. (Hint: refer to Example 3.5).
Figure A3. Boxplots of Weight Concern byGender
c. Overall, can you conclude thatthere is a gender effect when considering how Stat 100 studentsrate their concerns about their weight? Are the findings consistentwith what you would expect? Provide reasoning--use yourfindings in part b in your reasoning.
d. Why is it impossible to have veryextreme “outliers” with the variable in this problem?Provide reasoning.
Lowest
QL
Median
QU
Highest
0
8
16
20
30