According to Forbes.com, the numbers of billionaires in the five states in the Northeast with the most
Question:
According to Forbes.com, the numbers of billionaires in the five states in the Northeast with the most billionaires are given in the table.
New York .........67
Connecticut .........11
Pennsylvania ........ 7
Massachusetts ........ 7
New Jersey ......... 5
a. Find and report the mean number of billionaires in context; report the number to the nearest tenth.
b. Sketch a dotplot of the data, and mark the location of the mean. You can use a triangle under the axis (m, like a fulcrum) to mark the location; it should be at the balance point.
c. Find and report the standard deviation of the number of billionaires in context; round to the nearest tenth.
d. Which of the given numbers is farthest from the mean and therefore contributes most to the standard deviation?
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Introductory Statistics Exploring The World Through Data
ISBN: 9780321978271
2nd Edition
Authors: Robert Gould, Colleen Ryan