The data set SMOKE. dta contains information on smoking behavior and other variables for a random sample of single adults from the United States. The variable cigs is the (average) number of cigarettes smoked per day. Do you think cigs has a normal distribution in the U. S. adult population? Explain.

Answer and explanation:

First more than half of the population of the United States do not smoke so the data for smokers in the United States cannot be normally distributed.

Cigs variable does not have a normal distribution in the United States because it is skewed while a Gaussian/normally distributed data is symmetric about it's mean meaning that more values close to the mean occur more frequently. A normally distributed data has more data in the center and is bell shaped while a non normal distribution like the smokers data for US has data skewed to the left or right

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step-by-step explanation:

i took the test: )

- "runner b is moving at a slower rate."

- "the graphs shown are graphs of distance(km) against time(min).

the slopes of this graphs are are given by:

slope = (change in y)/(change in x)

= (change in distance)/(change in time)

this is the formula for finding the speed. so, the slope of these graphs represent the speed of the runner.

taking each division in the graph to represent 1 on both axis:

runner a ⇒ speed = (2-0)/(1-0)

= 2/1

= 2 km/min

runner b ⇒ speed = (3-0)/(3-0)

= 3/3

= 1 km/min

this shows that   runner b is moving at a slower rate."