Number of Innings in the Baseball Games a Major League

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Multiple Choice

Number of innings in the baseball games a major league team plays over the course of a season.

• A)The distribution would likely be bimodal and skewed right.The great majority of the games will be nine innings and this would represent one mode.However,if the score of a game is tied after nine innings,extra innings are played,so some games will last 10,11,12,or more innings; and,this will represent the other mode.Some games will be 5-8 innings,if for example rain cuts them short,and this is more common than extra-inning games,so the distribution would be skewed to the left.
• B)The distribution would likely be bimodal and skewed right.The great majority of the games will be nine innings and this would represent one mode.However,if the score of a game is tied after nine innings,extra innings are played,so some games will last 10,11,12,or more innings; and,this will represent the other mode.Some games will be 5-8 innings,if for example rain cuts them short,but extra-inning games are much more common,so the distribution would be skewed to the right.
• C)The distribution would likely be unimodal and skewed right.The great majority of the games will be nine innings.However,if the score of a game is tied after nine innings,extra innings are played,so some games will last 10,11,12,or more innings.Some games will be 5-8 innings,if for example rain cuts them short,but extra-inning games are much more common,so the distribution would be skewed to the right.
• D)The distribution would likely be unimodal and skewed left.The great majority of the games will be nine innings.However,if the score of a game is tied after nine innings,extra innings are played,so some games will last 10,11,12,or more innings.Some games will be 5-8 innings,if for example rain cuts them short,and this is more common than extra-inning games,so the distribution would be skewed to the left.
• E)The distribution would likely be uniform.Some games will be nine innings.However,if the score of a game is tied after nine innings,extra innings are played,so some games will last 10,11,12,or more innings.Some games will be 5-8 innings,if for example rain cuts them short.The number of innings in the games would be evenly distributed.

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