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Which of these items plays a crucial part in 1408’s conclusion?

Provide an appropriate response.A small computing center has found that the number of jobs submitted per day to its computers has a distribution that is approximately bell shaped, with a mean of 63 jobs and a standard deviation of 7. Where do we expect most (approximately 95%) of the distribution to fall?

If the population from which samples are drawn is non-normally distributed, the sample distribution of the means will be non-normally distributed. 

Consider the following data: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10. Find the sample standard deviation. Round to 2 decimals. 

Use the following information to answer the question. The mean age of lead actresses from the top ten grossing movies of 2010 was 29.6 years with a standard deviation of 6.35 years. Assume the distribution of the actresses’ ages is approximately unimodal and symmetric.Between what two values would you expect to find about 68% of the lead actresses ages?

Solve the problem.In the following histogram, what can you conclude about the bin width?

Which author was orphaned as a toddler, adopted by a wealthy family, expelled from West Point, married his cousin, and died under mysterious circumstances?

Which author wrote “The American Scholar” and “Self-Reliance”?

Which cephalopod is shown in this picture?

Identify the text that includes the following excerpt: “Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence”