The following data represent the salaries (in thousands of
dollars) of a sample of 13 employees of a firm: 26.5, 23.5, 29.7,
24.8, 21.1, 24.3, 20.4, 22.7, 27.2, 23.7, 24.1, 24.8, and
28.2.
Calculate the interquartile range. What does this tell you
about the data? Show your work.
Describe the shape of distribution of salaries of employees of
the firm based on the values of the quartiles.
Give a possible reason for the shape of this data set, in terms...