A college statistics class conducted a survey. They gathered data from a large r

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A college statistics class conducted a survey. They gathered data from a large random sample of students who estimated how much is money they typically spent each week in different categories (e.g., food, entertainment, etc.) A distribution of the survey results is presented below. One student claims the distribution of food costs is bell-shaped with one outlier. How would you respond? A. Agree, it looks pretty symmetric if you ignore the outlier. B. Agree, most distributions are bell shaped. C. Disagree, it looks more skewed to the left. D. Disagree, it looks more skewed to the right. E. Disagree, it looks more bimodal.

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Ans:Bimodal Distribution: Two Peaks. Data distributions in statistics can have one peak, or they can have several peaks.

It does not look like bell curve,it looks like bimodal distribution,as it have two peaks.

Option E is correct.(Disagree,it looks more bimodal)

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