(E1.37)-Hazardous Waste 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 2009.
a. What variable is being measured? Is the variable
discrete or continuous?
b. Describe the shape of the data distribution using the
stem and leaf plot shown here. Identify the
unusually large measurements marked “HI” 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 to help explain
why the data behave as they do?
|
