Listed below is the per capita income for the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
|
State
|
Amount
|
|
State
|
Amount
|
|
Alabama
|
$30,894
|
Montana
|
$30,790
|
|
Alaska
|
38,138
|
Nebraska
|
34,440
|
|
Arizona
|
31,936
|
Nevada
|
38,994
|
|
Arkansas
|
28,473
|
New Hampshire
|
39,753
|
|
California
|
39,626
|
New Jersey
|
46,763
|
|
Colorado
|
39,491
|
New Mexico
|
29,929
|
|
Connecticut
|
50,762
|
New York
|
44,027
|
|
Delaware
|
39,131
|
North Carolina
|
32,247
|
|
DC
|
57,746
|
North Dakota
|
32,763
|
|
Florida
|
36,720
|
Ohio
|
33,320
|
|
Georgia
|
32,095
|
Oklahoma
|
32,391
|
|
Hawaii
|
37,023
|
Oregon
|
33,299
|
|
Idaho
|
29,920
|
Pennsylvania
|
36,825
|
|
Illinois
|
38,409
|
Rhode Island
|
37,523
|
|
Indiana
|
32,288
|
South Carolina
|
29,767
|
|
Iowa
|
33,038
|
South Dakota
|
32,030
|
|
Kansas
|
34,799
|
Tennessee
|
32,172
|
|
Kentucky
|
29,729
|
Texas
|
35,166
|
|
Louisiana
|
31,821
|
Utah
|
29,406
|
|
Maine
|
32,095
|
Vermont
|
34,871
|
|
Maryland
|
43,788
|
Virginia
|
39,540
|
|
Massachusetts
|
46,299
|
Washington
|
38,212
|
|
Michigan
|
33,788
|
West Virginia
|
28,206
|
|
Minnesota
|
38,859
|
Wisconsin
|
34,405
|
|
Mississippi
|
27,028
|
Wyoming
|
40,655
|
|
Missouri
|
32,789
|
Use a statistical software package such as Excel or Minitab to help answer the follow- ing questions. Determine the first and third quartiles.
a. Determine the mean, median, and standard deviation.
b. Determine the first and third quartiles.
c. Develop a box plot. Are there any outliers? Do the amounts follow a symmetric dis- tribution or are they skewed? Justify your answer.
d. Organize the distribution of funds into a frequency distribution.
e. Write a brief summary of the results in parts a to d.