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In order to decide whether Rachmaninoff had freakishly large hands we first need to understand how hand span is distributed.

Below are the hand spans (in cm) of 200 random males.

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We start our analyse by grouping the data and drawing a histogram in order to visualise how the data is distributed.

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10 ≤ h < 12

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12 ≤ h < 14

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14 ≤ h < 16

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16 ≤ h < 18

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18 ≤ h < 20

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20 ≤ h < 22

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22 ≤ h < 24

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24 ≤ h < 26

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26 ≤ h < 28

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28 ≤ h < 30

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hand span

Describe how the data is distributed.

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