The following file contains the yields for a money market account, a one-year certificate of deposit, and a five-year CD for 23 Banks in the metropolitan New York area, as of May 28, 2009. For each of the three types of investments decide whether the data appear to be approximately normally distributed by.
a. comparing data characteristics to theoretical properties
b. constructing a normal probability plot.
Please show all work! Thank You
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Money Market
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One-Year CD
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Five-Year CD
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0.60
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1.00
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1.85
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1.75
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2.00
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3.30
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0.01
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0.25
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1.50
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1.00
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2.00
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3.10
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0.75
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1.50
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3.25
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1.25
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2.30
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3.70
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1.20
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2.05
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3.00
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0.50
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1.75
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3.00
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2.00
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1.65
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2.80
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1.75
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2.25
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2.50
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2.12
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1.35
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3.50
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1.90
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2.20
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3.66
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1.20
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2.10
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3.30
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0.20
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2.00
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1.70
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0.20
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2.00
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1.70
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0.25
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1.75
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3.30
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0.20
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2.00
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1.70
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0.25
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1.75
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3.00
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0.20
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2.00
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1.70
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0.60
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1.20
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1.65
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2.00
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2.24
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3.25
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2.02
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0.75
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1.00
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0.02
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0.85
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1.16
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