(a) A financial analyst would like to study the stock market in Hong Kong. It is believed that the stock market will become overvalue when one of the indicato Time left 1:5price/earning (P/E) ratio is over 33.9. On this basis, he finds out 30 companies and records their P/E ratio as below:Round the data down to an integer (e.g., 29.7 will be 29) and then prepare a stem-and-leaf display for the rounded data.[Do not put space between digits (e.g., put 1123 instead of 1 1 2 3).]Stem Leaf0123451.746.5 40.9 4.256.8 38.9 46.7 2.5 49.9 44.6 46.512.3 23.8 44.0 47.247.2 58.2 17.1 56.4 52.7 43.048.738.1 54.5 43.8 40.9 41.9 52.5 32.9 13.142.7 33.15

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