Introductory Statistics
3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780135188927
Author: Gould, Robert, Ryan, Colleen N. (colleen Nooter)
Publisher: Pearson,
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Notation The city of Chicago provides an open data set of the number of WiFi sessions at all of its public libraries. For 2014, there were an average of
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This chart displays the average rate of people living in poverty in the 23 continental states west of the Mississippi River for the years 2014 – 2016. Create a stemplot for these data. Note that a stemplot never shows the decimal symbol and only the rightmost digit is used for the leaf. (https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2017/demo/income-poverty/p60-259.html) Average rate of people living in poverty in the 23 continental states west of the Mississippi River for the years 2014 – 2016
State
Rate of Poverty (%)
Minnesota
8.3
Utah
9.4
Iowa
10.1
Wyoming
10.1
Colorado
10.2
North Dakota
10.5
Nebraska
10.6
Missouri
11.1
Washington
11.5
Idaho
11.9
Montana
11.9
Kansas
12.5
Oregon
12.7
Nevada
13.4
South Dakota
13.7
California
14.5
Texas
15.0
Oklahoma
15.4
Arkansas
16.8
Arizona
18.2
New Mexico
19.1
Louisiana
20.6
Mississippi
20.8
Rock Solid Gym offers several levels of membership status. All customers start at the bronze status. One day, the membership coordinator took a sample of
members of the gym. She found that 17 of the 28 members she sampled had bronze status. The gym had 640 members on that day, and 370 of these
members had bronze status.
For the membership coordinator's sample, find and write with proper notation the population proportion and sample proportion of members who had bronze
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Introductory Statistics
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