The officials of major league baseball have crowned a batting champion in the National League each year since 1876. A sample of winning batting averages is listed in the table:⁵

a. Construct a relative frequency histogram to describe the batting averages for these 20 champions.
b. If you were to randomly choose one of the 20 names, what is the chance that you would choose a player whose average was above .400 for his championship year?

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Year Name Average Derreck Lee 2005 .335 Todd Helton 2000 .372 Larry Doyle Edd Roush 1915 .320 1917 .341 Paul Waner 1934 .362 Honus Wagner 1911 .334 Willie Keeler 1898 .379 Roger Hornsby Tommy Davis Gary Sheffield Willie Mays 1924 424 1963 .326 1992 .330 1954 .345 Bill Madlock 1975 .354 Richie Ashburn 1958 350 Ernie Lombardi 1942 .330 Stan Musial .376 1948 Joe Torre 1971 .363 Tony Gwynn Roberto Clemente 1996 .353 1961 .351 Pete Rose 1968 .335 Roger Connor 1885 .371