Q2-Q3. Decide whether the following statements or behaviors are (a) reasonable o

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Q2-Q3. Decide whether the following statements or behaviors are (a) reasonable or plausible, or (b) unreasonable, unlikely, or clearly false. Explain your answer. Not all of these statements have definitive answers, so your explanation is more important than your chosen answer. definitive answers, so your exelinalise, Esrplou neot aio 2. The jersey numbers of all the NFL football players are recorded and made into a histogram. The histogram shows a symmetric distribution. 3. A large PSY 10 class just finished the final exam. The instructor wants to know how many students there are in each letter grade. So the instructor makes a histogram based on the letter grades of the class.

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2. The Jersey numbers are nominal type of data in which no airthmatic calculations is meaningful. Hence, the histogram of a nominal scale data would also be meaningless. Hence, this is unreasonable.

3. Letter grades are ordinal level of data and hence, bar charts should be used instead of histogram with the bar heights equal to the number of students in each letter grade. Hence, this is unreasonable.

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