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The following is the number of minutes to commute from home to work for a group of automobile executives.
28 25 48 37 41 19 32 26 16 23 23 29 36
31 26 21 32 25 31 43 35 42 38 33 28

a. How many classes would you recommend?
b. What class interval would you suggest?
c. What would you recommend as the lower limit of the first class?
d. Organize the data into a frequency distribution.
e. Comment on the shape of the frequency distribution.

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