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Olympic gold! The following table displays the total number of gold medals won by a
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Olympic gold! The following table displays the total number of gold medals won by a sample of countries in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
\(\begin{array}{lclc} \hline \text { Country } & \begin{array}{c} \text { Gold } \\ \text { medals } \end{array} & \text { Country } & \begin{array}{c} \text { Gold } \\ \text { medals } \end{array} \\ \text { Sri Lanka } & 0 & \text { Thailand } & 0 \\ \text { China } & 38 & \text { Kuwait } & 0 \\ \text { Vietnam } & 0 & \text { Bahamas } & 1 \\ \text { Great Britain } & 29 & \text { Kenya } & 2 \\ \text { Norway } & 2 & \text { Trinidad and Tobago } & 1 \\ \text { Romania } & 2 & \text { Greece } & 0 \\ \text { Switzerland } & 2 & \text { Mozambique } & 0 \\ \text { Armenia } & 0 & \text { Kazakhstan } & 7 \\ \text { Netherlands } & 6 & \text { Denmark } & 2 \\ \text { India } & 0 & \text { Latvia } & 1 \\ \text { Georgia } & 1 & \text { Czech Republic } & 4 \\ \text { Kyrgyzstan } & 0 & \text { Hungary } & 8 \\ \text { Costa Rica } & 0 & \text { Sweden } & 1 \\ \text { Brazil } & 3 & \text { Uruguay } & 0 \\ \text { Uzbekistan } & 1 & \text { United States } & 46 \\ \hline \end{array}\)
(a) Make a dotplot to display these data. Describe the overall pattern of the distribution and any departures from that pattern.
(b) Overall, 205 countries participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics, of which 54 won at least one gold medal. Do you believe that the sample of countries listed in the table is representative of this larger population? Why or why not?
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Olympic gold! The following table displays the total number of gold medals won by a sample of countries in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
\(\begin{array}{lclc} \hline \text { Country } & \begin{array}{c} \text { Gold } \\ \text { medals } \end{array} & \text { Country } & \begin{array}{c} \text { Gold } \\ \text { medals } \end{array} \\ \text { Sri Lanka } & 0 & \text { Thailand } & 0 \\ \text { China } & 38 & \text { Kuwait } & 0 \\ \text { Vietnam } & 0 & \text { Bahamas } & 1 \\ \text { Great Britain } & 29 & \text { Kenya } & 2 \\ \text { Norway } & 2 & \text { Trinidad and Tobago } & 1 \\ \text { Romania } & 2 & \text { Greece } & 0 \\ \text { Switzerland } & 2 & \text { Mozambique } & 0 \\ \text { Armenia } & 0 & \text { Kazakhstan } & 7 \\ \text { Netherlands } & 6 & \text { Denmark } & 2 \\ \text { India } & 0 & \text { Latvia } & 1 \\ \text { Georgia } & 1 & \text { Czech Republic } & 4 \\ \text { Kyrgyzstan } & 0 & \text { Hungary } & 8 \\ \text { Costa Rica } & 0 & \text { Sweden } & 1 \\ \text { Brazil } & 3 & \text { Uruguay } & 0 \\ \text { Uzbekistan } & 1 & \text { United States } & 46 \\ \hline \end{array}\)
(a) Make a dotplot to display these data. Describe the overall pattern of the distribution and any departures from that pattern.
(b) Overall, 205 countries participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics, of which 54 won at least one gold medal. Do you believe that the sample of countries listed in the table is representative of this larger population? Why or why not?
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Using the table which shows the total number of gold medals won by a sample of countries in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. Let’s determine the following: