The numbers of homicides in five U.S. states and five Canadian provinces for the years 1997 and 2008 were as follows on top of the next page.

a. Calculate the homicide rate per 100,000 population for each state and each province for each year.

Relatively speaking, which state and which province had the highest homicide rates in each year? Which society seems to have the higher homicide rate?

Write a paragraph describing these results.

b. Using the rates you calculated in part

a, calculate the percent change between 1997 and 2005 for each state and each province. Which states and provinces had the largest increase and decrease? Which society seems to have the largest change in homicide rates? Summarize your results in a paragrap