The following data represent the price appreciation in home values between the first quarter of 1991 and the second quarter of 2014 for homes in each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The best price appreciation was in the District of Columbia and the worst was in Ohio.

(a) Round each observation to the nearest whole number and draw a stem-and-leaf plot.
(b) Describe the shape of the distribution.
(c) Do you think the stem-and-leaf plot does a good job of visually summarizing the data, or would you recommend a different graphical representation of the data? If you recommend a different graph, which would you recommend? Why?

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75.41 104.80 112.66 68.95 93.69 87.21 133.24 112.60 207.11 136.09 70.58 117.37 109.16 66.58 349.76 148.61 104.67 209.52 87.45 101.01 80.48 185.08 129.62 93.28 127.05 96.44 107.03 135.91 121.85 94.46 104.26 109.17 113.11 65.10 115.40 150.33 80.09 110.42 90.96 85.00 134.50 104.01 118.06 97.26 125.32 219.86 197.44 224.92 112.91 145.34 86.68