Following is a list of the number of hazardous waste sites in each of the 50 states of the United States in a recent year. The list has been sorted into numerical order.

a. Find the first and third quartiles of these data.

b. Find the median of these data.

c. Find the upper and lower outlier boundaries.

d. Are there any outliers? If so, list them.

e. Construct a boxplot for these data.

f. Describe the shape of this distribution.
g. What is the 30th percentile?
h. What is the 85th percentile?
i. The state of Georgia has 16 hazardous waste sites. What percentile is this?

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