Question

A report gave the accompanying data for the 50 U.S. states on the percentage of the population that was born in the state and is stll lving there. The data values have been arranged in order from largest to smallest. 75.9 71.4 69.6 69.0 68.6 67.5 66.7 66.3 66.1 66.0 66.0 65.1 64.4 64.3 63.8 63.7 62.8 62.6 61.9 61.9 61.5 61.1 59.2 59.0 58.7 57.3 57.1 55.6 55.6 55.5 55.3 54.9 54.7 54.5 54.0 54.0 53.9 53.5 52.8 52.5 50.2 50.2 48.9 48.7 48.2 47.2 43.4 40.4 35.7 28.3 (a) Find the values of the median, the lower quartile, and the upper quartile. (Enter your answers to one decimal place.) median58 lower quartile- upper quartile- (b) The two smallest values in the data set are 35.7 (Alaska) and 28.3 (Wyoming). Are these two states outliers? Wyoming is an outlier, but Alaska is not. Neither Alaska nor Wyoming are outliers Alaska is an outlier, but Wyoming is not Alaska and Wyoming are both outliers.

Answer 1