23. Hazardous Waste How safe is your neighborhood? Are there any hazardous waste sites nearby? The table and the stem and leaf plot show the number of hazardous waste sites in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2016.5

a. Describe the shape of the distribution. Identify the unusually large measurements marked “HI” by state.

b. Can you think of a reason why these states would have a large number of hazardous waste sites? What other variable might you measure to help explain why the data behave as they do?

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AL 15 AK 6 AZ 9 IL AR 9 HOLN HI 3 MA 33 NM 16 SD ID 9 MI 67 NY 87 TN 49 MN 25 NC 39 TX 273 17 53 IN 40 MS 9 ND 0 UT 18 CA 99 IA 13 MO 33 OH 43 VT 12 CO 21 KS 13 MT 19 OK 8 VA 31 CT 15 KY 13 NE 16 OR 14 WA 51 DE 14 LA 15 NV 1 PA 97 WV DC 1 ME 13 NH 21 RI 12 WI 38 FL 54 MD 21 NJ 115 SC 25 WY 1820 GA 17 Source: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2017, p. 335