The accompanying table lists a portion of Major League Baseball’s pitchers, their earned run average (ERA), and their salary (in millions of $). 

a. Perform agglomerative clustering to group the players based on ERA and Salary. Standardize the variables and choose the Euclidean distance and the single linkage clustering method to cluster the players into four clusters. How many players are in the largest cluster? 

b. What are the average ERA and salary for the largest cluster of players?

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Player 1 2 ⠀ 10 ERA 2.53 2.54 I 3.09 Salary 17 4 ⠀ 0.5