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The table below lists all 50 states in the United States of America and their 2015 violent
crime rates. This rate measures the number of violent crimes in a state per 10,000 people.
For instance, if a state had 12,000 violent crimes and a population size 2,300,000, its violent
crime rate was
$(2,300,00) 10,000 = 52.
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TABLE 3.2: List of States with 2015 Violent Crime Rates Measured as
Number of Violent Crimes per 10.000 Population
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
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Kansas
Kentucky
43
64
42
46
40
31
26
49
47
37
25
22
38
36
27
34
21
Louisiana
52
Maine
13
Maryland 47
Massachusetts 41
Michigan
45
20
Minnesota
23
24
Mississippi
27
7
Missouri
43
20
Montana
25
Nebraska
26
Nevada
60
New Hampshire 22
New Jersey
29
New Mexico
61
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
39
34
27
Source: www.fbi.gov; data are in Crime data file at text website.
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f. Create a graph of this distribution.
g. What is the mean and standard deviation crime rate?
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What is the unit of analysis in this data set?
What is the range of violent crime rates? 51
Create a grouped frequency distribution of violent crime rates starting with the bin 0-
9. Make sure to include frequency, cumulative frequency, proportion, cumulative
proportion, percentage, and cumulative percentage.
What is the median violent crime rate?
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Can you identify the state with the median violent crime rate? If so, what is it? If not,
why not?
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h. Can you identify the state with the mean crime rate? If so, what is it? If not, why not?
Now that you know the median and mean violent crime rate, what can you say about
the skewness of the violent crime distribution?
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