American League baseball teams play their games with the designated hitter rule, meaning that pitchers do not bat. The League believes that replacing the pitcher, typically a weak hitter, with another player in the batting order produces more runs and generates more interest among fans. Following are the average number of runs scored by each team in the 2013 season.

a) Create an appropriate graphical display of these data.
b) Write a few sentences comparing the average number of runs scored per game in the two leagues. (Remember: shape, center, spread, unusual features!)
c) The World Series teams, the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals, both were at the top of their respective leagues. Did either team score an unusually large number of runs per game? Explain.

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American Average Runs/Game BOS DET OAK BAL CLE National Runs/Game STL COL CIN ATL ARI 5.27 4.91 4.73 4.60 4.60 4.52 4.48 4.40 4.29 4.01 4.00 3.85 3.79 3.77 3.69 4.83 4.36 4.31 4.25 4.23 4.05 4.01 3.95 3.91 3.88 3.82 3.81 3.77 3.72 3.17 TEX LAD MIL PIT SFG NYM SDP TBR KCR SEA MIN CHC MIA CHW