The following table shows the numbers of capital prisoners (prisoners on deathrow) in 2017 in the southern

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The following table shows the numbers of capital prisoners (prisoners on deathrow) in 2017 in the southern U.S. states.

a. Find the median number of prisoners and interpret (using a sentence in context).

b. Find the interquartile range (showing Q1 and Q3 in the process) to measure the variability in the number of prisoners.

c. What is the mean number of capital prisoners? 

d. Why is the mean so much larger than the median? 

e. What is better to report the median, instead of the mean, as a typical measure?

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Introductory Statistics Exploring The World Through Data

ISBN: 9780135163146

3rd Edition

Authors: Robert Gould, Rebecca Wong, Colleen N. Ryan

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