A student investigated whether popular novelist John Grisham uses shorter sentences in his books aimed at teenage readers than in his more general books. She took a sample of sentences from two of his books: The Confession, aimed at general readers, and Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer, aimed at teenage readers. She then recorded the length (number of words) in each sentence. The sorted data appear below and in the file GrishamSentences.

The Confession (55 sentences)

The odore Boone: Kid Lawyer (29 sentences)

a. Determine the five-number summary for each group.
b. Construct boxplots to compare the two distributions.
c. Comment on what the five-number summaries and boxplots reveal about the question of whether Grisham tends to use shorter sentences for his books aimed at teenage readers than in his books aimed at a general audience.

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