How safe is your neighborhood? Are there any hazardous waste sites nearby? The table shows the number of hazardous waste sites in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the year 2006:⁵

a. What variable is being measured? Is the variable discrete or continuous?
b. A stem and leaf plot generated by MINITAB is shown here. Describe the shape of the data distribution. Identify the unusually large measurements marked €œHI€ by state.

c. Can you think of any reason these five states would have a large number of hazardous waste sites? What other variable might you measure

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NM AL HI MA SD 15 33 13 2 AK ID MI NY 87 TN 68 14 AZ IL MN NC TX 48 24 31 44 AR IN MS ND UT 10 30 5 18 CA IA MO OH VT 95 12 26 37 11 CO CT DE MT NE NV KS OK VA 19 11 15 11 28 WA KY OR 16 14 14 11 47 LA PA WV 15 14 96 NH NJ DC FL ME MD RI WI WY 12 21 12 38 SC 117 50 18 26 2 GA 17 3. Stem-and-leaf of Sites N = 51 Leaf Unit = 1.0 0 011223 0 56999 1 0111122234444 11 24 (8) 1 55567889 19 2 14 17 2 668 14 3 013 11 78 9. 4 78 HI 68, 87, 95, 96, 117