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Reading Japanese books. Refer to the Reading in a Foreign Language (Apr. 2004) experiment...

Reading Japanese books. Refer to the Reading in a Foreign Language (Apr. 2004) experiment to improve the Japanese reading comprehension levels of 14 University of Hawaii students, Exercise. The data are saved in the JAPANESE file. The number of books read by each student and the student’s course grade are repeated in the table on the next page.

Number of Books

Course Grade

53

A

42

A

40

A

40

B

39

A

34

A

34

A

30

A

28

B

24

A

22

C

21

B

20

B

16

B

Source: Hitosugi, C. I., and Day, R. R., “Extensive Reading in Japanese.” Reading in a Foreign Language, Vol. 16, No. 1, Apr. 2004 (Table). Reprinted with permission from the National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii.

a. Find the mean, median, and mode of the number of books read. Interpret these values.


b. What do the mean and median indicate about the skewness of the distribution of the data?

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