Question 12.13

12.13 Where are the young more likely to live? Figure 11.11 (page 259) is a stemplot of the percentage of residents aged 18 to 34 in each of the 50 states. The stems are whole percents and the leaves are tenths of a percent.

  1. (a) The shape of the distribution suggests that the mean will be larger than the median. Why?

  2. (b) Find the mean and median of these data and verify that the mean is larger than the median.