Question 12.12

12.12 College tuition. Figure 11.7 (page 255) is a stemplot of the tuition charged by 116 colleges in Illinois. The stems are thousands of dollars and the leaves are hundreds of dollars. For example, the highest tuition is $38,600 and appears as leaf 6 on stem 38.

  1. (a) Find the five-number summary of Illinois college tuitions. You see that the stemplot already arranges the data in order.

  2. (b) Would the mean tuition be clearly smaller than the median, about the same as the median, or clearly larger than the median? Why?