3.18. The GSS has asked, During the past 12 months, how many people have you known personally...

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3.18. The GSS has asked, "During the past 12 months, how many people have you known personally that were victims of homicide." Table 3.14 shows a printout from analyzing responses.

(a) Is the distribution bell shaped, skewed to the right, or skewed to the left?

(b) Does the Empirical Rule apply to this distri- bution. Why or why not?

(c) Report the median. If 500 observations shift from 0 to 6, how does the median change? What property does this illustrate for thei median?

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