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You Explain It! Quartiles Violent crimes include rape, robbery, assault, and homicide. The following is a summary of the violent-crime rate (violent crimes per 100,000 population) for all 50 states in the United States plus Washington, D.C., in 2012.
- a. Provide an interpretation of these results.
- b. Determine and interpret the
interquartile range . - c. The violent-crime rate in Washington, D.C., in 2012 was 1243.7. Would this be an outlier?
- d. Do you believe that the distribution of violent-crime rates is skewed or symmetric? Why?
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