Irrelevant speech effects. In a psychological study of shortterm memory, irrelevant speech effects refer to the degree to which the memorization process is impaired by irrelevant background speech (for example, trying to memorize a list of numbers while listening to a speech in an unfamiliar language). An analysis of irrelevant speech effects was carried out and published in Acoustical Science &

Technology (Vol. 35, 2014). Subjects performed the memorization task under two conditions: (1) with irrelevant background speech and (2) in silence. The difference in the error rates for the two conditions—called the relative difference in error rate (RDER)—was computed for each subject. A MINITAB histogram summarizing the RDER values for 71 subjects is displayed here.

a. Convert the frequency histogram into a relative frequency histogram.

b. What proportion of the subjects had RDER values between 75 and 105?

c. What proportion of the subjects had RDER values below 15?

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Frequency 4- 2- 20- 18- 16- 14- 12- 10- Histogram of RDER -45 -15 13 15 45 75 105 RDER Value 135 165 195 225 255