How do cigarette taxes per pack vary from one state to the next? The data set of 2003 cigarette taxes for all 50 states and Washington, D.C. is in the Cigarette Tax data file on the text CD.
a. Use software to construct a histogram. Write a short description of the distribution, noting shape and possible outliers.
b. Find the mean and median for the cigarette taxes. Which is larger, and why would you have expected that from the histogram?
c. Find the standard deviation, and interpret it.