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his Question: 12 pts 2 of 4 (1 complete) This Quiz: 50 pts possibl n 2011, the Standard and Poor (S&P;) 500 stock index closed, on December 31, within a fraction of its closing price on December 31,2010 for an annual loss of 0.003%. A finance magazine published a list of its 76 preferred mutual funds. The histogram shows the distribution their 2011 annual returns. Complete parts a and b below. a) Write a short description of this distribution (shape, center, spread, unusual features) What is the shape of the data? O A. Unimodal and symmetric O C. Bimodal and skewed to the left O E. Unimodal and skewed to the right O G. Bimodal and skewed to the right What is the center of the data? O B. Unimodal and skewed to the left O D. Uniform dF. Multimodal O H. Bimodal and symmetric | the median. The median of the data is approximately percent and the mean is Round to the nearest whole number as needed ) What is the spread of the data? The range of the data is approximately percent Click to select your answer(s)Explanation / Answer
(a) The distribution is Unimodel and skewed to the right.
Here median of the data is approximately 1 and the mean is smaller than the median.
The range of data is approximately 4.5%.
(b) Unusual feature in the data
Option A is wrong as the data is for one year not changinf as per time
Option B is wrong there is no gap visiblel here.
Option C is also wrong as we cant notice an outlier here
Option E is also wrong as data is not categorical here and can be represented by a histogram
So option D is correct.
(b) As compared to S & P stock index, it fiits withing the range of the data but it is much lower than the mean and median. Option C is correct.
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