=+6.29 The article “Baseball: Pitching No-Hitters” (Chance

[summer 1994]: 24–30) gives information on the number of hits per team per game for all nine-inning major league games played between 1989 and 1993. Each game resulted in two observations, one for each team. No distinction was made between the home team and the visiting team. The data are summarized in the following table:

Hits per team Number of per game observations 0 20 1 72 2 209 3 527 4 1048 5 1457 6 1988 7 2256 8 2403 9 2256 10 1967 11 1509 12 1230 13 843 14 569 15 393

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