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Determine the type of sampling used: A soccer coach selects six players from a group of boys aged eight to ten, seven players from a group of boys aged 11 to 12, and three players from a group of boys aged 13 to 14 to form a recreational soccer team.

In your words, what does the median of a data represent? Give me a practical example/use when one would use the median to describe a data set.

_____________ theories of justice affirm that important benefits and burdens of a society should be distributed equality. To achieve greater equality, the ______ would not be averse to mandating changes to the distribution of society’s goods or to interfering in the workings of a free market.

The main function of the fermentation pathway is ________.

Penn State Fayette’s golf team had the following scores in their most recent tournament: 70   72   74  76   80    114 Fill in the following blanks with either mean, median, or mode in the below statement. The [ns1] best describes the scores of the team, because the [an2] is higher than almost all of the scores in the data set.

A scientist is looking through a microscope and notices a build up of mRNA inside the nucleus of the cell. He concludes that…

Determine the type of sampling used: A high school educational researcher interview 50 high school female teachers and 50 high school male teachers.

__________________ is the overriding of a person’s actions or choices when their autonomy is substantially diminished. 

An athletics coach is training three runners Nicole, Kevin, and Ivko to compete in a 10-mile race. He can only enter two of the runners and needs to decide which runner will not be entered.  He knows how many minutes it has taken each runner to run 10 miles in their training sessions: Nicole 70 58 58 65 59 60 66 59 65 65 66 65 Kevin 62 60 60 64 86 64 64 61 59 62 64 62 Ivko 65 63 62 64 62 65 65 65 65 64     Round your answers to 1 decimal place. You do not need to specify the units, such as minutes. Mean Median Mode Standard Deviation Quartile 1 Quartile 3 IQR Range Coefficient of Variation Nicole [nmean] [nmedian] [nmode] [nsd] [nq1] [nq3] [niqr] [nrange] [ncor] Kevin [kmean] [kmed] [kmo] [ksd] [kq1] [kq3] [kiqr] [krange] [kcor] Ivko [imean] [imed] [imode] [isd] [iq1] [iq3] [iiqr] [irange] [icor] Using the answers above, make a statistical based case for why the coach should NOT enter Nicole into the race. [Nanser] Using the answers above, make a statistical based case for why the coach should NOT enter Ivko into the race. [iand] (because he has less races is not an option) Using the answers above, make a statistical based case for why the coach SHOULD enter Ivko into the race. [iand2] (because he has less races is not an option)

The National Center for Health Statistics publishes information on the duration of marriages in Vital Statistics of the United States.  Which measure of central tendency is more appropriate for data on the duration of marriages, the mean or the median?  Explain your answer.