Any of you who have listened to children tell stories will recognize that children differ from adults in that they tend to recall stories as a sequence of actions rather than as an overall plot. Their...

Any of you who have listened to children tell stories will recognize that children differ from adults in that they tend to recall stories as a sequence of actions rather than as an overall plot. Their descriptions of a movie are filled with the phrase “and then. . . .” An experimenter with supreme patience asked 50 children to tell her about a given movie. Among other variables, she counted the number of “and then. . .” statements, which is the dependent variable. The data follow:

a. Plot an ungrouped frequency distribution for these data.

b. What is the general shape of the distribution?