A Telemarketing Firm Is Monitoring the Performance of Its Employees

question 74

Short Answer

A telemarketing firm is monitoring the performance of its employees based on the number of sales per hour. One employee had the following sales for the last 19 hours. What is the median for the distribution of number of sales per hour?

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Definitions:

Recessive

Describing traits or genes that are expressed in offspring only when inherited from both parents, as opposed to dominant traits that are expressed when inherited from just one parent.

Genetic Disorders

Diseases or conditions caused by abnormalities in an individual's DNA, often inherited from one or both parents.

Autosomes

Any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome; autosomes are present in pairs in both males and females and carry the bulk of genetic information.

X-linked

A mode of genetic inheritance by which a trait is passed from parent to child through the X chromosome.