2.112 Hurricane damage The histogram shows the distribution of the damage (in billion dollars) of the 30 most costly hurricanes hitting the U.S. mainland between 1900 and 2010. (Numbers are inflation adjusted and in 2010 dollars). The data are available in the Hurricane file on the book’s website.

a. Describe the shape of the distribution.

b. Would you use the mean or median to describe the center? Why?

c. Verify with technology that the mean is 13.6, Q1 = 5.7, median = 7.9, and Q3 = 11.8. (Note that different software uses slightly different definitions for the quartiles.)

d. Write a short paragraph describing the distribution of hurricane damage.

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Count Hurricane Damage 12- 10 8 9 4 2 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 Damage (in billion US Dollar)