Question 11.9

11.9 Where do 18- to 34-year-olds live? Figure 11.11 is a stemplot of the percentage of residents aged 18 to 34 in each of the 50 states in July 2008. As in Figure 11.6 (page 256) for older residents, the stems are whole percents and the leaves are tenths of a percent.

  1. (a) Utah has the largest percentage of young adults. What is the percentage for this state?

  2. (b) Ignoring Utah, describe the shape, center, and variability of this distribution.

  3. (c) Is the distribution for young adults more or less variable than the distribution in Figure 11.6 for older adults?