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Choosing a school for your child to can have a critical impact on that child's future. The frequency polygons below reflect the Regents exam scores of 50 students who attended the Macy School (dashed line) and 50 students who attended the Coffin School (solid line) in Brooklyn. [The Regents exams are scored on a scale of 0-100 with 100 being the best possible score.] Based on the patterns you see in these two frequency polygons, which school-would you choose for your child and why? Explain your interpretation of this-data in terms of the most relevant statistics that we have learned. I would choose Jared Coffin school because its mean is in the middle and it also represents a

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The better choice among the two given is Macy school because the mean score for this is higher as compared to the mean score of Coffin School. Although the Macy school has some students who even scored 60 while the minimum score of Coffin school seems to be 65 but the Macy school has more data on the higher side of scores.

So it would be better to choose Macy school.

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