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Suppose a technical report gave the following nitrous oxide emissions (in thousands of tons) for the 48 states in the continental U.S. states.
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Transcribed Image Text:Suppose a technical report gave the following nitrous oxide emissions (in thousands of tons) for the 48 states in the continental U.S. states. 76 21 40 7 30 5 6 136 71 34 0 89 136 39 91 40 14 27 64 34 60 2 36 27 16 64 31 20 1 15 40 3 85 38 7 68 152 31 44 89 33 0 19 39 130 6 33 0 (a) Use these data to construct a boxplot that shows outliers. 0⁰ 00 ✔ O . 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 20 Ⓡ 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Ⓡ 20 40 (b) Write a few sentences describing the important characteristics of the boxplot. The median nitrous oxide emissions is distribution appears to be ---Select--- 60 80 100 120 140 160 20 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Ⓡ to thousand tons, with the middle 50% of the data extending from with one mild✔ outlier at the upper ✓✓ ✔end that represents the state with nitrous oxide emissions of thousands of tons, giving an interquartile range of thousand tons. thousand tons. The
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