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Electoral votes To become president of the United States, a candidate does not have to
Chapter 1, Problem 94(choose chapter or problem)
Electoral votes To become president of the United States, a candidate does not have to receive a majority of the popular vote. The candidate does have to win a majority of the 538 electoral votes that are cast in the Electoral College. Here is a stemplot of the number of electoral votes for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
(a) Make a boxplot of these data by hand. Be sure to check for outliers.
(b) Which measure of center and spread would you use to summarize the distribution of the mean and standard deviation or the median and IQR? Justify your answer.
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QUESTION:
Electoral votes To become president of the United States, a candidate does not have to receive a majority of the popular vote. The candidate does have to win a majority of the 538 electoral votes that are cast in the Electoral College. Here is a stemplot of the number of electoral votes for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
(a) Make a boxplot of these data by hand. Be sure to check for outliers.
(b) Which measure of center and spread would you use to summarize the distribution of the mean and standard deviation or the median and IQR? Justify your answer.
ANSWER:
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(a)
To construct a boxplot we need the five-number summary of a distribution. The five-number summary of a distribution consists of minimum, the first quartile, the median, the third quartile, and the maximum observation, written in ascending order from smallest to largest.