Chapter 1: Q 70. (page 49)
One of the following scores was omitted from the stem plot below:

The missing number is
Short Answer
The correct option is (d)
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Chapter 1: Q 70. (page 49)
One of the following scores was omitted from the stem plot below:

The missing number is
The correct option is (d)
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Where do the young live? Below is a stem plot of the percent of residents aged to in each of the states. As in the stem plot for older residents (page 35), the stems are whole percent and the leaves are tenths of a percent. This time, each stem has been split in two, with values having leaves through placed on one stem, and values ending in through placed on another stem.

(a) Why did we split stems?
(b) Utah has the highest percentage of residents aged to . What is that percent? Why do you think Utah has an unusually high percentage of residents in this age group?
(c) Describe the shape, center, and spread of the distribution, ignoring Utah.
Birth days Births are not evenly distributed across
the days of the week. Here are the average numbers
of babies born on each day of the week in the United
States in a recent year.

(a) Present these data in a well-labelled bar graph.
Would it also be correct to make a pie chart?
(b) Suggest some possible reasons why there are
fewer births on weekends.
Comparing investments Should you put your money into a fund that buys stocks or a fund that invests in real estate? The boxplots compare the daily returns (in percent) on a 鈥渢otal stock market鈥 fund and a real estate fund over a year ending in November

(a) Read the graph: about what were the highest and lowest daily returns on the stock fund?
(b) Read the graph: the median return was about the same on both investments. About what was the median return?
(c) What is the most important difference between the two distributions?
The individuals in this data set are
(a) households. (d) 120 variables.
(b) people. (e) columns.
(c) adults.
Make a graph to display the marginal distribution. Describe what you see
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