The U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of the number of adoptions in each state (and Washington, DC). (www.census .gov) The upper histogram shows the distribution of adoptions.
The lower histogram shows the population of each state (and DC).
a) What do the histograms say about the distributions? 

b) Why do think they look similar?
c) What might be a better way to express the number of adoptions?

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# of States 15 10 5 0 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 Number of Adoptions 5000 6000