The New Governor, Steadily Dropping in Popularity, Decided That Her

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The new governor, steadily dropping in popularity, decided that her only hope was to be perceived as a tough, no-nonsense guy. She held a press conference and declared that state budgets would be "cut to the bone."The director of meat inspection, fearful of the consequences of having his budget quartered, decided to beef up all requests with as many numbers as he could muster. To support the request for new cars, he asked a hireling to make up a chart of the agency's automobile odometer readings. The numbers below represent those readings in thousands of miles. Be that hireling and arrange them into a frequency distribution using intervals of 12-14 to 39-41. Find the mean, median and mode. Graph the data using an appropriate graph. Tell the direction of skew, if any. Finally, do these data constitute a population or a sample? Justify your answer. $$\begin{array} { l l l l l l l l l l l l l } 38 & 22 & 27 & 41 & 37 & 13 & 33 & 35 & 31 & 36 & 36 & 32 & 40 \\31 & 40 & 35 & 34 & 24 & 36 & 30 & 18 & 25 & 37 & 27 & 30 & 34 \\35 & 38 & 37 & 28 & 34 & 19 & 37 & 32 & 29 & 33 & 21 & 26 & 31 \\38 & & & & & & & & & & & &\end{array}$$