Listed below are the ages at the time of death for the 38 deceased American presidents from George Washington to Ronald Reagan:⁵

a. Construct a stem and leaf plot for the data. Describe the shape. Does it surprise you?
b. The five youngest presidents at the time of death appear in the lower €œtail€ of the distribution. Three of the five youngest have one common trait. Identify the five youngest presidents at death. What common trait explains these measurements?

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Washington J. Adams Jefferson Madison Monroe J. Q. Adams Jackson Van Buren Garfield 49 67 Arthur 90 56 83 Cleveland 71 B. Harrison 85 67 Cleveland McKinley T. Roosevelt 73 71 80 58 78 60 Taft Wilson 79 72 W. H. Harrison Tyler Polk 68 67 Harding Coolidge Hoover 71 57 53 60 Taylor Fillmore 65 90 F. D. Roosevelt 74 63 Pierce Truman 64 88 Buchanan Eisenhower Kennedy L. Johnson 77 78 Lincoln 56 46 A. Johnson 66 64 Grant Nixon 63 81 Hayes Reagan 70 93