A study that looked at beverage consumption used sample sizes that were much smaller than previous national surveys. One part of this study compared 20 children who were 7 to 10 years old with 5 who were 11 to 13. The younger children consumed an average of 8.2 oz of sweetened drinks per day while the older ones averaged 14.1 oz. The standard deviations were 10.8 oz and 8.2 oz respectively. Required:
Do you think that it is reasonable to assume that these data are Normally distributed? Explain why or why not?

Step-by-step explanation:

In statistics, about 68 percent of values come in one standard deviation of the mean by using a standard normal model.   Approximately 95% of the data were all within two standard deviations from the mean. Almost all of the data are in the range of three standard deviations of the mean (roughly 99.7%).

The 68-95-99.7 law, also known as the Empirical Rule, is based on this evidence. 68 percent of the data values of a naturally distributed data collection of small children with a mean of 8.2 and a standard deviation of 10.8 would be between -2.2 and 19.0.

Within a mean of 14.1 as well as a standard deviation of 8.2, 68 percent of the data values in a usually distributed data collection of older children would be between 5.9 and 22.3.

However, we cannot conclude that the data is naturally distributed since the real actual data vary from the usual normal curve computed above.

Hence, various measures like either goodness of fit or theory testing, would be used for this.

step-by-step explanation:

i think something is missing in your question because y-1=(x-12) would not pass through the point (-4,-3). because if you replace x by -4 your are supposed to find y=-3 which is not the case her. if you replace x by -4 you find =-15.

i assume the right equation is y-1=1/4*(x-12) because this one is passing through both your points (if you are interested to know how i found that out i can tell you).

in this equation if i replace x by -4 i find y=-3 and if i replace x by 12, i find y=1 so the line representing this equation is passing through those 2 points.

then the standard form of the equation is finding an expression of y in function of x

y-1=1/4*(x-12)

y=x/4-3+1

y=x/4-2

hope that .

do you confirm there was a mistake in the question?