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10. In one university, language professors incorporated a 10-week extensive program to improve students’ Japanese reading comprehension. The professors collected 262 books originally written for Japanese children and required their students to read at least 40 of them as part of the grade in the course. The books were categorized into reading levels (color-coded for easy selection) according to length and complexity. Complete parts a through c. 11. Use the relative frequency table shown to the right to calculate the number of the 400 measurements failing into each of the measurements classes. Then graph a frequency histogram for these data. 12. Five banks have been ranked by the amount charged to credit and debit cards issued by the banks. The table to the right gives the total amount charged in 2007 for the top ranked banks. 13. Compare the z-scores to decide which of the x values below lie the greatest above the mean and the greatest distance below the mean. 14. Consider the horizandal box plot shown to the right. 15. Educators are constantly eveluating the efficacy of public schools in the education and training of tudents. One quantitative assessment of change over time is the difference in scores on the SAT. The table below contains the average SAT scores for 10 states for the years 1988 and 2005. 16. The mean gas mileage for a hybrid car is 56 miles per gallon. Suppose that the gasoline mileage is approximately normally distributed with a standard deviation of 3.2 miles per gallon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ QNT 561 Week 2 Lab Work (New) For more course tutorials visit www.qnt561.com