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Home Run Distances In 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set the record for the most home runs hit in a season by hitting 70 home runs. Three years later in 2001, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke McGwire’s record by hitting 73 home runs. The following data represent the distances, in feet, of each player’s home runs in his record-setting season.

(a) Construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot.

(b) Compare the two populations. What can you conclude from the back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot?

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QUESTION:

Problem 49AYU

Home Run Distances In 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals set the record for the most home runs hit in a season by hitting 70 home runs. Three years later in 2001, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke McGwire’s record by hitting 73 home runs. The following data represent the distances, in feet, of each player’s home runs in his record-setting season.

(a) Construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot.

(b) Compare the two populations. What can you conclude from the back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot?

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Step 1:  The given data represent the distances, in feet, of each player’s home runs in his record-setting season.

  1. To construct a back-to-back stem-and-leaf plot.

 

                                                 Home Run Distances

     Mc Gwire

Bonds

   

      32

 00

      33

 

 1 0

      34

 7

 0 0

      35

 0

 9 0 0 0

      36

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