A cellular phone company monitors monthly phone usage. The following data represent the monthly phone use in minutes of one part
icular customer for the past 20 months. Use the given data to answer parts (a) and (b).
325 517 424 395 494
396 351 379 408 426
523 421 434 373 456
535 394 437 403 513
(a) Determine the standard deviation and interquartile range of the data.
s=(Round to two decimal places as needed.)
The conversion factor is used to convert from inches to cm. The inches unit in the denominator cancels with one of the inches unit from the original 112 square inches figure.
We use two identical copies of the same conversion factor to convert from square inches to square centimeters. This is the "multple conversion" your teacher is referring to.
Think of "square inches", aka , as "inches times inches". Or think of a 1 inch by 1 inch square that has an area of 1 square inch. The same applies for the square centimeter unit as well.