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A magazine provided overall customer satisfaction scores forAT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon cell-phone services inmajor metropolitan areas throughout the United States. The ratingfor each service reflects the overall customer satisfactionconsidering a variety of factors such as cost, connectivityproblems, dropped calls, static interference, and customer support.A satisfaction scale from 0 to 100 was used with 0 indicatingcompletely dissatisfied and 100 indicating completely satisfied.The ratings for the four cell-phone services in 20 metropolitanareas are contained in the Excel Online file below. Construct aspreadsheet to answer the following questions.

 
CityAT&TSprintT-MobileVerizon
Atlanta69687480
Boston68667777
Chicago70677378
Dallas74677779
Denver70697678
Detroit72678080
Jacksonville72667882
Las Vegas71707782
Los Angeles65677179
Miami67717681
Minneapolis67687878
Philadelphia71687479
Phoenix67687982
San Antonio74677881
San Diego68707580
San Francisco65717676
Seattle67697778
St. Louis73687780
Tampa72657680
Washington71707477

a. Consider T-Mobile first. What is the medianrating (to 1 decimal)?

b. Develop a five-number summary for theT-Mobile service.

Smallest value
First quartile (to 2 decimals)
Median (to 1 decimal)
Third quartile (to 2 decimals)
Largest value

c. Are there outliers for T-Mobile?

_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers

d. Repeat parts (b) and(c) for the other three cell-phone services.

AT&TSprintVerizon
Smallest value
First quartile (to 2 decimals)
Median (to 1 decimal)
Third quartile (to 2 decimals)
Largest value

Are there outliers for AT&T?

_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers

Are there outliers for Sprint?

_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers

Are there outliers for Verizon?

_________Yes, the data contain outliersNo, the data do notcontain outliers

e. Which of the following box plots accuratelydisplays the data set?

#1

Rating

#2

Rating

#3

Rating

#4

Rating

_________Box plot #1Box plot #2Box plot #3Box plot #4

Which service did the magazine recommend as being best in termsof overall customer satisfaction?

_________AT&TSprintT-MobileVerizon

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a Median for T Mobile 05n1th value 105th value ofsorted data 765Minimum 71First quartile Q1 025n1th value 525th value of sorteddata 7425Median    See Answer
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