Construct a steam-and-leaf display


Question: Visit the Australian Bureau of Statistics website and get the Catalogue 6302.0 Average Weekly Earnings, Australia. You can access the data in Table 10.G from the website

https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/DetailsPage/6302.0Nov%202013?OpenDocument .

From the Sheet Data1, Use the values for Nov-2013 (row 48) up to column S (which gives earnings for other services). Take only 3 significant digits (in tens of dollars, for example, the first value from column B, which is earnings in the mining sector, should be 247. The second value in the data set should be 129, the third 162, and so on).

(a) Construct a steam-and-leaf display for these data.

(b) Construct a relative frequency histogram for these data.

(c) Briefly describe what the histogram and the stem-and-leaf display tell you about the data. What characteristics are different between histograms and stem plots?

(d) What proportion of weekly income is below 130 (i.e., $1,300.00)

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