10. Sociology: High School Dropouts What percentage of the general U. S. population are high school dropouts? The Statistical Abstract of the United
States, 120th edition, gives the percentage of high school dropouts by state,
For convenience, the data are sorted in increasing order.
5 6 7. 7 7 7 8 8 8 8
8 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 10 10
10 10 10 10 10 10 11 11 11 11
11 11
11 12 12 12 12 13 13
13 13 13 13 14 14 14 14 14 15
(a) Make a box-and-whisker plot and find the interquartile range.
Mb) Wyoming has a dropout rate of about 7%. Into what quartile does this
rate fall?