Question 5.48

18. As of 2014, the Major League Baseball career and single-season home run records are held by Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants. Here are Bonds’s annual home run totals from 1986 (his first year) through 2007 (his last year):

16 25 24 19 33 25 34 46
37 33 42 40 37 34 49 73
46 45 45 5 26 28

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  1. Make a stemplot of the data. Are there any outliers?
  2. Find Bonds’s career mean and median number of home runs. How do these change when you drop his 2001 season total of 73? What general fact about the mean and median does your result illustrate?