D | Question 1 2 pts The following excerpt is from \"Farm Size and the Organizat

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D | Question 1 2 pts The following excerpt is from "Farm Size and the Organization of U.S. Crop Farming, by James M MacDonald, Penni Korb, and Robert A. Hoppe, USDA, Economik Research Service, Economic Research Report, Number 152, August 2013 This is a good example of how you should write your report of descriptives! The average size of a U.S. crop farm has changed little during the past three decades. However, this seeming stability masks important structural changes in the complex U.S. farm sector Start with the complex size pattern of U.S. farms. In figure 1, based on 2011 ARMS data, farms and cropland acreage are sorted into eight cropland size classes frequently reported in Census of Agriculture publications, In that year, 391.6 million acres of cropland were divided among 1.675 million U.S farms with cropland, for an average (Imean) farm size of 234 acres However, relatively few farms are near the average. Eighty percent of farms with cropland were smaller than the mean size, and 70 percent were less than half the mean size. The median farm size (at which half of farms were larger and half were smaller) was just 45 acres. At what percentile is the mean? (give an integer number between 0 and 100 The distribution is skewed positively, skewed negatively or symmetric? D | Question 2 3 pts 1-2 of 5 From question 1 (orevious question au you the distribution of sizes of

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1)as 80% of farms are less than mean therefore percentile of mean =80

b)for mean is higher than the median ; therefore skewed positively

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