The following table presents the number of active breweries for samples of states located east and west of the Mississippi River.

a. Find the mean number of breweries for states east of the Mississippi.

b. Find the mean number of breweries for states west of the Mississippi.

c. Find the median number of breweries for states east of the Mississippi.

d. Find the median number of breweries for states west of the Mississippi.

e. Does one region have a lot more breweries per state than the other, or are they about the same?

f. The sample of western states happens to include California. Remove California from the sample of western states, and compute the mean and median for the remaining western states.
g. How does the removal of California affect the comparison of the number of breweries between eastern and western states?

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East State Number of Breweries State West Number of Breweries Connecticut 18 Alaska 17 Delaware 10 Arizona 31 Florida 47 California 305 Georgia 22 Colorado 111 Illinois 52 Iowa 21 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 6 Maine 38 Minnesota 41 Maryland 23 Montana 30 Massachusetts 40 South Dakota New Hampshire 16 Texas New Jersey 20 Utah 535 37 15 New York 76 North Carolina 46 South Carolina 14 Tennessee 19 Vermont 20