Question: Electoral votes To become president of the United States, a candidate does not have to receive a majority of the popular vote. The candidate does have to win a majority of the 538 electoral votes that are cast in the Electoral College. Here is a stemplot of the number of electoral votes for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
(a) Make a boxplot of these data by hand. Be sure to check for outliers.
(b) Which measure of center and spread would you use to summarize the distribution-the mean and standard deviation or the median and IQR? Justify your answer.