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A team of introductory statistics students went to a grocery store and recorded the total calories and fat calories for various kinds of soup. They produced a table of statistics and two dot plots. Write a succinct summary of the center, variability, and shape for each data set. Note: TrimMean is the 5 percent trimmed mean (removing the smallest 5 percent and the largest 5 percent of the values, rounded to the nearest integer).
 Statistic  Total Calories  Fat Calories  Sample size 3030 Mean 96.6327.83 Median 9020 TrimMean 95.0826.35 St Dev 26.9119.46 Min 450 Max 18070Q18015Q310536.25\begin{array} { l c c } \text { Statistic } & \text { Total Calories } & \text { Fat Calories } \\\text { Sample size } & 30 & 30 \\\text { Mean } & 96.63 & 27.83 \\\text { Median } & 90 & 20 \\\text { TrimMean } & 95.08 & 26.35 \\\text { St Dev } & 26.91 & 19.46 \\\text { Min } & 45 & 0 \\\text { Max } & 180 & 70 \\Q _ { 1 } & 80 & 15 \\Q _ { 3 } & 105 & 36.25\end{array}  A team of introductory statistics students went to a grocery store and recorded the total calories and fat calories for various kinds of soup. They produced a table of statistics and two dot plots. Write a succinct summary of the center, variability, and shape for each data set. Note: TrimMean is the 5 percent trimmed mean (removing the smallest 5 percent and the largest 5 percent of the values, rounded to the nearest integer).  \begin{array} { l c c }  \text { Statistic } & \text { Total Calories } & \text { Fat Calories } \\ \text { Sample size } & 30 & 30 \\ \text { Mean } & 96.63 & 27.83 \\ \text { Median } & 90 & 20 \\ \text { TrimMean } & 95.08 & 26.35 \\ \text { St Dev } & 26.91 & 19.46 \\ \text { Min } & 45 & 0 \\ \text { Max } & 180 & 70 \\ Q _ { 1 } & 80 & 15 \\ Q _ { 3 } & 105 & 36.25 \end{array}

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