A Manufacturer of Flashlight Batteries Took a Sample of 130

question 12

Multiple Choice

A manufacturer of flashlight batteries took a sample of 130 batteries from a day's production and used them continuously until they were drained. The number of hours until failure are recorded. Given below is the boxplot of the number of hours it took to drain each of the 130 batteries. The distribution of the number of hours is

• A) right-skewed.
• B) left-skewed.
• C) symmetrical.
• D) none of the above

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Definitions:

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