Emily is graduating from college. She has studied biology, chemistry, and computing and hopes to work as a forensic scientist applying her science background to crime investigation. Late one night she thinks about some jobs she has applied for. Let A, B, and C be the events where Emily is offered a job by A = the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner B = the New Jersey Division of CriminalJustice C = the federal Disaster Mortuary Operations Response Team

1. why is a frequency distribution useful? it allows researchers to see the "shape" of the data. it tells researchers how often the mean occurs in a set of data. it can visually identify the mean. it ignores outliers. 2. the is defined by its mean and standard deviation alone. normal distribution frequency distribution median distribution marginal distribution 3. approximately % of the data in a given sample falls within three standard deviations of the mean if it is normally distributed. 95 68 34 99 4. a data set is said to be if the mean of the data is greater than the median of the data. normally distributed frequency distributed right-skewed left-skewed