Electoral votes To become president of the United States, a candidate does not have to receive a majority of the popular vote. The candidate does have to win a majority of the 538 electoral votes that are cast in the Electoral College. Here is a stemplot of the number of electoral votes for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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5 5 5 Key: 1|5 is a state with 15 electoral votes.

(a) Make a boxplot of these data by hand. Be sure to check for outliers.

(b) Which measure of center and spread would you use to summarize the distribution—the mean and standard deviation or the median and IQR? Justify your answer.