3.21 ● The percentage of teens not in school or working in 2010 for the 50 states were given in the 2012 Kids Count Data Book (www.aecf.org) and are shown in the following table:

State Rate Alabama 11%

Alaska 11%

Arizona 12%

Arkansas 12%

California 8%

Colorado 7%

Connecticut 5%

Delaware 9%

Florida 10%

Georgia 12%

Hawaii 12%

Idaho 11%

Illinois 8%

Indiana 8%

Iowa 6%

State Rate Kansas 6%

Kentucky 11%

Louisiana 14%

Maine 7%

Maryland 8%

Massachusetts 5%

Michigan 9%

Minnesota 5%

Mississippi 13%

Missouri 9%

Montana 9%

Nebraska 4%

Nevada 15%

New Hampshire 6%

New Jersey 8%

State Rate New Mexico 12%
New York 8%
North Carolina 10%
North Dakota 5%
Ohio 8%
Oklahoma 9%
Oregon 10%
Pennsylvania 7%
Rhode Island 5%
South Carolina 9%
State Rate South Dakota 8%
Tennessee 10%
Texas 9%
Utah 9%
Vermont 4%
Virginia 7%
Washington 8%
West Virginia 14%
Wisconsin 7%
Wyoming 9%

Note that the percentages range from a low of 4%
to a high of 15%. In constructing a stem-and-leaf display for these data, if we regard each percentage as a two-digit number and use the first digit for the stem, then there are only two possible stems, 0 and