Sleep and the College Student How muchsleep do you get on a typical school night? A

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Sleep and the College Student How muchsleep do you get on a typical school night? A group of10 college students were asked to report the number of hours that they slept on the previous night with the followingresults:7, 6, 7.25, 7, 8.5, 5, 8, 7, 6.75, 6a. Find the mean and the standard deviation of thenumber of hours of sleep for these 10 students.b. Calculate the z-score for the largest value (x 8.5).Is this an unusually sleepy college student?c. What is the most frequently reported measurement?What is the name for this measure of center?d. Construct a box plot for the data. Does the boxplot confirm your results in part b? [HINT: Since thez-score and the box plot are two unrelated methodsfor detecting outliers, and use different types ofstatistics, they do not necessarily have to (butusually do) produce the same results.]

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