You are at a college of roughly 1,000 students and obtain data from the entire freshman
class (250 students)on height and weight during orientation.You consider this to be a
population that you want to describe, rather than a sample from which you want to infer
general relationships in a larger population.Weight (Y)is measured in pounds and height
(X)is measured in inches.You calculate the following sums: $$\sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } y _ { i } ^ { 2 } = 94,228.8 , \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } x _ { i } ^ { 2 } = 1,248.9 , \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } x _ { i } y _ { i } = 7,625.9$$ $$\text { (small letters refer to deviations from means as in } z _ { i } = Z _ { i } - \bar { Z } \text { ). }$$ (a)Given your general knowledge about human height and weight of a given age, what can
you say about the shape of the two distributions?

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The Answer of You are at a college of roughly 1,000 students and obtain data from the entire freshman
class (250 students)on height and weight during orientation.You consider this to be a
population that you want to describe, rather than a sample from which you want to infer
general relationships in a larger population.Weight (Y)is measured in pounds and height
(X)is measured in inches.You calculate the following sums: $$\sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } y _ { i } ^ { 2 } = 94,228.8 , \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } x _ { i } ^ { 2 } = 1,248.9 , \sum _ { i = 1 } ^ { n } x _ { i } y _ { i } = 7,625.9$$ $$\text { (small letters refer to deviations from means as in } z _ { i } = Z _ { i } - \bar { Z } \text { ). }$$ (a)Given your general knowledge about human height and weight of a given age, what can
you say about the shape of the two distributions?

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