Pulse Rates for Men and Women. To answer Exercises 90–93, refer to Figure 10, which includes comparative dotplots of the pulse rates for males and females.2

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Figure 3.10: FIGURE 10 Comparative dotplots of pulse rates, by gender.

Question 3.93

image 93. What if the fastest pulse rate for the men was a typo and should have been an unspecified lower pulse rate? Describe how and why this change would have affected the following, if at all. Would they increase, decrease, or remain unchanged? Or is there insufficient information to tell what would happen? Explain your answers.

  1. The mean men's pulse rate
  2. The median men's pulse rate
  3. The mode men's pulse rate

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(a) Decrease (b) Unchanged (c) Unchanged