This box plot shows the heights (in feet) of a sample of pine trees. pine tree heights
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height (ft)
a pine tree that is 8 feet tall is added to the sample. how will this outlier
affect the shape of the box plot?
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a. the new box plot will be symmetric.
a. the nowhe
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b. the new box plot will be negatively skewed
c. the new box plot will be positively skewed.
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For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?