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Expand Your knowledge: Split Stem The Boston Marathon is the oldest and best-known U.S. marathon. It covers a route from Hopkinton. Massachusetts, to downtown Boston The distance is approximately 26 miles. The Boston Marathon web site has a wealth of information about the history of the race. In particular, the site gives the winning times for the Boston Marathon. They are all over 2 hours. The following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each:
Earlier Period
23 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 15 | 22 | 13 | 10 |
18 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 9 | 20 | 14 | 10 | 9 | 12 |
Recent Period | |||||||||
9 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 8 |
II | 8 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
(a) Make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. Use two lines per stem.
(b) Make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. Use two lines per stem.
(c) Interpretation Compare the two distributions How many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution?
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