Data from the U.S. Census Bureau provides the population by state in millions of people

(The World Almanac, 2006).

State Population State Population State Population Alabama 4.5 Louisiana 4.5 Ohio 11.5 Alaska 0.7 Maine 1.3 Oklahoma 3.5 Arizona 5.7 Maryland 5.6 Oregon 3.6 Arkansas 2.8 Massachusetts 6.4 Pennsylvania 12.4 California 35.9 Michigan 10.1 Rhode Island 1.1 Colorado 4.6 Minnesota 5.1 South Carolina 4.2 Connecticut 3.5 Mississippi 2.9 South Dakota 0.8 Delaware 0.8 Missouri 5.8 Tennessee 5.9 Florida 17.4 Montana 0.9 Texas 22.5 Georgia 8.8 Nebraska 1.7 Utah 2.4 Hawaii 1.3 Nevada 2.3 Vermont 0.6 Idaho 1.4 New Hampshire 1.3 Virginia 7.5 Illinois 12.7 New Jersey 8.7 Washington 6.2 Indiana 6.2 New Mexico 1.9 West Virginia 1.8 Iowa 3.0 New York 19.2 Wisconsin 5.5 Kansas 2.7 North Carolina 8.5 Wyoming 0.5 Kentucky 4.1 North Dakota 0.6

a. Develop a frequency distribution, a percent frequency distribution, and a histogram.

Use a class width of 2.5 million.

b. Discuss the skewness in the distribution.

c. What observations can you make about the population of the 50 states?