The fertility rate for a nation is the average number of children per adult woman. The following table shows results for western European nations, the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as reported by the World Bank in 2019.

a. Construct a stem-and-leaf plot by hand using stems 1 and 2 and the decimal parts of the numbers for the leaves. What is a disadvantage of this plot?

b. Construct a stem-and-leaf plot by hand using split stems. (Take the first stem for 1 to have leaves 2 to 3, the second 4 to 5, the third 6 to 7, and the fourth 8 to 9, and the stem 2 to have leaves 0 to 1 and 2 to 3.

c. Construct a histogram by using the intervals 1.2–1.4, 1.4–1.6, 1.6–1.8, 1.8–2.0, 2.0–2.2.

d. Obtain a stem-and-leaf plot and histogram by entering the data in the Explore Quantitative Data app

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Country Fertility Country Fertility Austria 1.5 Netherlands 1.7 Belgium 1.7 Norway 1.7 Denmark 1.8 Spain 1.3 Finland 1.6 Sweden 1.6 France 1.9 Switzerland 1.5 Germany 1.6 United Kingdom 1.8 Greece 1.4 United States 1.8 Ireland. 1.8 Canada 1.5 Italy 1.3 Mexico 2.2