3.23 ● The accompanying data on annual maximum wind speed (in meters per second) in Hong Kong for each year in a 45-year period were given in an article that appeared in the journal Renewable Energy

(March, 2007).

30.3 39.0 33.9 38.6 44.6 31.4 26.7 51.9 31.9 27.2 52.9 45.8 63.3 36.0 64.0 31.4 42.2 41.1 37.0 34.4 35.5 62.2 30.3 40.0 36.0 39.4 34.4 28.3 39.1 55.0 35.0 28.8 25.7 62.7 32.4 31.9 37.5 31.5 32.0 35.5 37.5 41.0 37.5 48.6 28.1

a. Use the annual maximum wind speed data to construct a histogram.

b. Is the histogram approximately symmetric, positively skewed, or negatively skewed?

c. Would you describe the histogram as unimodal, bimodal, or multimodal?