There Is a Proposal to Replace the Shortest Roller Coaster

question 102

Essay

There is a proposal to replace the shortest roller coaster above with one that has a length of 1,200 ft. Indicate whether changing that roller coaster's length would make each of these summary statistics increase, decrease, or stay about the same.
a. mean
b. median
c. range
d. IQR
e. standard deviation

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Definitions:

Lower And Upper Values

The minimum and maximum values in a dataset or for a variable, defining its range.

Reject The Hypothesis

The decision in hypothesis testing that the evidence is sufficient to conclude the hypothesis is not consistent with the data.

Type II Error

A statistical term referring to the error that occurs when a false null hypothesis fails to be rejected.

Null Hypothesis

A statement that assumes no effect or no difference in a statistical hypothesis test.