The article Feasting on Protein (AARP Bulletin, September 2009) gave the cost per gram of protein for

The article €œFeasting on Protein€ (AARP Bulletin, September 2009) gave the cost per gram of protein for 19 common food sources of protein.

a. Construct a dotplot of the cost- per- gram data.
b. Locate the cost per gram for meat and poultry items in your dotplot and highlight them in a different color. Based on the dotplot, do meat and poultry items appear to be a good value when compared to other sources of protein?

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Cost (cents per gram (cents per gram of proteln) 5.0 of protein) Food Food Chicken Salmon Turkey Soybeans Roast beef Cottage cheese Ground beef Ham Lentils Beans Yogurt Milk 1.8 5.8 1.5 3.1 27 3.1 2.3 2.1 3.3 2.9 Tofu Cheddar cheese Nuts Eggs Peanut butter Ice cream 5.2 6.9 3.6 5.2 5.7 1.8 5.3