Do males have higher literacy rates than females, on average, in Islamic countries? The following table shows the percent of men and women who were literate in 24 largely Muslim nations at the time of this writing.

a. Explain why these are paired data.

b. A dotplot of the difference (Male – Female) in literacy rate for each country is shown. Describe what the graph reveals about whether males have higher literacy rates than females in these countries, on average.

c. Calculate the mean difference and the standard deviation of the differences. Interpret the standard deviation.

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Country Male literacy (%) Female literacy (%) Afghanistan 43.1 12.6 Algeria 86.0 86.0 Azerbaijan 99.9 99.7 Bangladesh 62.0 53.4 Egypt 82.2 65.4 Indonesia 97.0 89.6 Iran 91.2 82.5 Iraq 89.0 73.6 Jordan 96.6 90.2 Kazakhstan 99.8 99.3 Kyrgyzstan 99.3 98.1 Lebanon 93.4 86.0 Libya 98.6 90.7 Malaysia 95.4 90.7 Morocco 76.1 57.6 Pakistan 67.0 42.0 Saudi Arabia 90.4 81.3 Syria 86.0 73.6 Tajikistan 99.8 99.6 Tunisia 95.1 80.3 Turkey 99.3 98.2 Turkmenistan 99.3 98.3 Uzbekistan 99.6 99.0 Yemen 81.2 46.8