Political Science: Georgia Democrats How Democratic is Georgia? County-by-county results are shown for a recent election. For your convenience, the data have been sorted in increasing order (Source:

County and City Data Book, 12th edition, U.S. Census Bureau).

Percentage of Democratic Vote by Counties in Georgia 31 33 34 34 35 35 35 36 38 38 38 39 40 40 40 40 41 41 41 41 41 41 41 42 42 43 44 44 44 45 45 46 46 46 46 47 48 49 49 49 49 50 51 52 52 53 53 53 53 53 55 56 56 57 57 59 62 66 66 68

(a) Make a box-and-whisker plot of the data. Find the interquartile range.

(b) Grouped Data Make a frequency table using five classes. Then estimate the mean and sample standard deviation using the frequency table.

Compute a 75% Chebyshev interval centered about the mean.

(c) If you have a statistical calculator or computer, use it to find the actual sample mean and sample standard deviation. Otherwise, use the values Sx 5 2769 and Sx2 5132,179 to compute the sample mean and sample standard deviation.

(d) Based on this data, would it be unusual to find a county in Georgia that had a 75% Democratic vote? How about a 25% Democratic vote?AppendixLO1