You recently received a job with a company that manufactures an automobile antitheft device.

To conduct an advertising campaign for the product, you need to make a claim about the number

of automobile thefts per year. Since the population of various cities in the United States varies,

you decide to use rates per 10,000 people. (The rates are based on the number of people living

in the cities.) Your boss said that last year the theft rate per 10,000 people was 44 vehicles. You

want to see if it has changed. The following are rates per 10,000 people for 36 randomly selected

locations in the United States.

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