Hazardous Waste How safe is yourneighborhood Are there any

Chapter 1, Problem 37

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Hazardous Waste How safe is yourneighborhood? Are there any hazardous wastesites nearby? The table shows the number of hazardouswaste sites in each of the 50 states and the District ofColumbia in the year 2009:5AL 15 HI 3 MA 32 NM 14 SD 2AK 6 ID 9 MI 69 NY 90 TN 15AZ 9 IL 48 MN 25 NC 36 TX 50AR 9 IN 32 MS 6 ND 0 UT 19CA 96 IA 12 MO 31 OH 41 VT 11CO 20 KS 12 MT 17 OK 9 VA 31CT 15 KY 14 NE 13 OR 13 WA 48DE 15 LA 12 NV 1 PA 97 WV 9DC 1 ME 12 NH 21 RI 12 WI 39FL 55 MD 19 NJ 114 SC 26 WY 2GA 16a. What variable is being measured? Is the variablediscrete or continuous?b. Describe the shape of the data distribution using thestem and leaf plot shown here. Identify theunusually large measurements marked HI bystate.Stem and Leaf Display: Hazardous WasteStem-and-leaf of Sites N = 51Leaf Unit = 1.06 0 01122313 0 669999923 1 1222223344(8) 1 5555679920 2 0118 2 5616 3 112212 3 6910 4 19 4 887 5 06 5 5HI 69, 90, 96, 97, 114c. Can you think of any reason these five states wouldhave a large number of hazardous waste sites? Whatother variable might you measure to help explainwhy the data behave as they do?

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