Question 5.59

29. Table 5.12 (page 225) gives CO2 emissions per person for countries with populations of at least 20 million. The distribution is strongly skewed to the right. The United States and several other countries appear to be high outliers. Give the five-number summary. Explain why this summary suggests that the distribution is right-skewed.

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The five-number summary is 0.0, 0.75, 3.2, 7.8, 19.9. The third quartile and maximum are much farther from the median than the first quartile and minimum, showing that the right side of the distribution has more variability than the left side.