A histogram of the numbers of murders per state in 2012 is shown in Fig. 87 for the 50 states.

a. If there were two outliers, then estimate what they would be. For each of your estimates, find the largest possible error.
b. Describe the shape of the distribution.
c. Estimate the number of states that had between 250 and 749 murders, inclusive.
d. Identify which class contains the 50th percentile, which is a measure of the center. Are the observations in the class typical values? Explain.
e. California and Texas had the largest and the next-to-largest numbers of murders in 2012, respectively. California and Texas also had the largest and the next-to-largest populations in that year, respectively. Explain why we cannot conclude that Californians and Texans had the greatest chance of being murdered in 2012. What would be a better measure of comparing the risk of being murdered?

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