Roller Coaster z Score A larger sample of 92 roller coaster maximum speeds has a mean of 85.9 km/h and a standard deviation of 28.7 km/h. What is the z score for a speed of 34 km/h? Does the z score suggest that the speed of 34 km/h is significantly low?

In Exercises 21–28, use the same list of cell phone radiation levels given for Exercises 17–20. Find the indicated percentile or quartile.

Q1

In Exercises 21–28, use the same list of cell phone radiation levels given for Exercises 17–20. Find the indicated percentile or quartile.

Q3

In Exercises 21–28, use the same list of cell phone radiation levels given for Exercises 17–20. Find the indicated percentile or quartile.

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Variance of Roller Coaster Speeds The standard deviation of the sample values in Exercise 1 is 43.1 km/h. What is the variance (including units)?

Estimating s The sample of 92 roller coaster maximum speeds includes values ranging from a low of 10 km/h to a high of 194 km/h. Use the range rule of thumb to estimate the standard deviation.

Outliers Identify any of the differences found from Exercise 1 that appear to be outliers. For any outliers, how much of an effect do they have on the mean, median, and standard deviation?

Estimating Standard Deviation with the Range Rule of Thumb. In Exercises 29–32, refer to the data in the indicated exercise. After finding the range of the data, use the range rule of thumb to estimate the value of the standard deviation. Compare the result to the standard deviation computed using all of the data.

Body Temperatures Refer to Data Set 5 “Body Temperatures” in Appendix B and use the body temperatures for 12:00 AM on day 2.

Finding Standard Deviation from a Frequency Distribution. In Exercises 37–40, refer to the frequency distribution in the given exercise and compute the standard deviation by using the formula below, where x represents the class midpoint, f represents the class frequency, and n represents the total number of sample values. Also, compare the computed standard deviations to these standard deviations obtained by using Formula 3-4 with the original list of data values: (Exercise 37) 18.5 minutes; (Exercise 38) 36.7 minutes; (Exercise 39) 6.9 years; (Exercise 40) 20.4 seconds.

Standard deviation for frequency distribution