Pulling wood apart. Example 1.10 (page 19) gives the breaking strengths of 20pieces of

Chapter 0, Problem 2.5

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Pulling wood apart. Example 1.10 (page 19) gives the breaking strengths of 20pieces of Douglas fir.(a) Give the five-number summary of the distribution of breaking strengths. (Thestemplot, Figure 1.10, helps because it arranges the data in order, but you shoulduse the unrounded values in numerical work.)(b) The stemplot shows that the distribution is skewed to the left. Does thefive-number summary show the skew? Remember that only a graph gives a clearpicture of the shape of a distribution.

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