Number of Businesses. Use the following data for Exercises 117–120. The data represent the number of business establishments in a sample of states.
| State | Businesses (1000s) |
State | Businesses (1000s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 3.8 | Michigan | 7.5 |
| Arizona | 7.9 | Minnesota | 6.1 |
| Colorado | 8.9 | Missouri | 5.9 |
| Connecticut | 3.1 | Ohio | 9.5 |
| Georgia | 10.3 | Oklahoma | 3.8 |
| Illinois | 11.9 | Oregon | 5.4 |
| Indiana | 5.6 | South Carolina | 4.6 |
| Iowa | 2.7 | Tennessee | 5.4 |
| Maryland | 5.7 | Virginia | 8.6 |
| Massachusetts | 6.3 | Washington | 9.3 |
Table 2.79: Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Question 2.257
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120. What if we subtract the same amount (say, 1000) from each state's number of businesses. Explain how this would affect the following: What would change? What would stay the same?
- Relative frequency histogram
- Dotplot
- Stem-and-leaf display
- Frequency polygon