Health Care: Hospitals The American Medical Association Center for Health Policy Research, in its publication State Health Care Data: Utilization, Spending, and Characteristics, included data, by state, on the number of community hospitals and the average patient stay (in days). The data are shown in the table. Make a stem-and-leaf display of the data for the average length of stay in days. Comment about the general shape of the distribution.AppendixLO1

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No. of Average Length Average Average State Hospitals of Stay State No. of Hospitals Length No. of Length of Stay State Hospitals of Stay Alabama 119 7.0 Kentucky 107 6.9 New Mexico 37 5.5 Alaska 16 5.7 Louisiana 136 6.7 Oregon 66 5.3 Arizona 61 5.5 Maine 38 7.2 Ohio 193 6.6 Arkansas 88 7.0 Maryland 51 6.8 Oklahoma 113 6.7 California 440 6.0 Massachusetts 101 7.0 Pennsylvania 236 7.5 Colorado 71 6.8 Michigan 175 7.3 Rhode Island 12 6.9 Connecticut 35 7.4 Minnesota 148 8.7 S. Carolina 68 7.1 Delaware 8 6.8 Mississippi 102 7.2 S. Dakota 52 10.3 Dist. of Columbia 11 7.5 Missouri 133 7.4 Tennessee 122 6.8 Florida 227 7.0 Montana 53 10.0 Texas 421 6.2 Georgia 162 7.2 N. Carolina 117 7.3 Utah 42 5.2 Hawaii 19 9.4 N. Dakota 47 11.1 Vermont 15 7.6 Idaho 41 7.1 Nebraska 90 9.6 Virginia 98 7.0 Indiana 113 6.6 Nevada 21 6.4 Washington 92 5.6 Illinois 209 7.3 New Hampshire 27 7.0 W. Virginia 59 7.1 Iowa 123 8.4 New York 231 9.9 Wisconsin 129 7.3 Kansas 133 7.8 New Jersey 96 7.6 Wyoming 27 8.5