Each Day for Twenty Days a Record Store Owner Counts

question 31

Multiple Choice

Each day for twenty days a record store owner counts the number of customers who purchase an album by a certain artist. The data and a dotplot of the data are shown below: Data set: 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9
Which of the following statements can be made using the given information?

• A)During the twenty days when the record store owner collected data, there were some days when no one purchased an album by the artist.
• B)On the first day of collecting data the record store owner had one person purchase an album by the artist.
• C)The dotplot shows that this data has a roughly bell- shaped distribution.
• D)None of these

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Definitions:

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