A large construction company wants to review the ages of its sales representatives. A sampling of the ages of 25 sales reps are given:
50 42 32 35 41 44 24 46 31 47 36 32 30 44 22 47 31 56 28 37 49 28 42 38 45
The following histogram is a representation of the data.
Frequency
20-24 25-29 30-34
35-39
40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59
Ages
How would you describe the shape of the distribution of the data? How is it skewed?

Farmers know that driving heavy equipment on wet soil compresses the soil and injures future crops. here are data on the "penetrability" of the same type of soil at two levels of compression. penetrability is a measure of how much resistance plant roots will meet when they try to grow through the soil. compressed soil 2.85 2.66 3 2.82 2.76 2.81 2.78 3.08 2.94 2.86 3.08 2.82 2.78 2.98 3.00 2.78 2.96 2.90 3.18 3.16 intermediate soil 3.17 3.37 3.1 3.40 3.38 3.14 3.18 3.26 2.96 3.02 3.54 3.36 3.18 3.12 3.86 2.92 3.46 3.44 3.62 4.26 use the data, omitting the high outlier, to give a 95% confidence interval for the decrease in penetrability of compressed soil relative to intermediate soil. compute degrees of freedom using the conservative method. interval: to