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A football coach wanted to determine whether his punter could kick a football filled with helium farther than a football filled with air, since helium is much lighter than air. Two identical footballs, one air-filled and one-helium filled, were tested outdoors on a windless day at an athletic complex.

The kicker, a novice punter, was not informed which football contained helium. Each football was kicked 40 times by the same person, and the two footballs were alternated with each kick (so that the punter’s leg would play no favorites if he tired or improved with practice). The experimenter recorded the distance traveled in yards by each ball. Each measurement was recorded to the nearest whole number of yards. Below are dot plots and box plots of the two sets of data:

A) Which of the following quantities is greater for the air football than the helium football?
Select Option rangemedianmidrange${ 75 }^{ th }$ percentile

B) Which type of football is more likely to result in a punt greater than 30 yards?
Select Option heliumair

C) A low outlier is an observation that lies unusually far below the bulk of the data. Two kicks of the helium football are considered low outliers. Low outliers are identified as values that occur below the 25th percentile by an amount greater than 150% of the difference between the ${ 75 }^{ th }$ and ${ 25 }^{ th }$ percentiles. If the air football has a ${ 25 }^{ th }$ percentile of 23 yards, a median of 26 yards, and a ${ 75 }^{ th }$ percentile of 29 yards, calculate the maximum kick distance of an air football that could be classified as an outlier.
Select Option 17 yards14 yards20 yards15 yards

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