The accompanying data are the percentage of babies bornprematurely in a particular year for the 50 U.S. states and theDistrict of Columbia (DC). State Premature Percent State PrematurePercent State Premature Percent Alabama 12.3 Kentucky 11.3 NorthDakota 9.0 Alaska 9.1 Louisiana 12.9 Ohio 10.9 Arizona 9.6 Maine9.0 Oklahoma 10.9 Arkansas 10.6 Maryland 10.7 Oregon 8.3 California8.9 Massachusetts 9.2 Pennsylvania 10.0 Colorado 9.0 Michigan 10.4Rhode Island 9.2 Connecticut 9.8 Minnesota 9.3 South Carolina 11.4Delaware 9.9 Mississippi 13.5 South Dakota 9.1 DC 10.2 Missouri10.4 Tennessee 11.4 Florida 10.5 Montana 9.9 Texas 11.0 Georgia11.4 Nebraska 9.7 Utah 9.7 Hawaii 10.6 Nevada 10.7 Vermont 8.5Idaho 8.8 New Hampshire 8.8 Virginia 9.8 Illinois 10.7 New Jersey10.2 Washington 8.7 Indiana 10.3 New Mexico 9.8 West Virginia 11.4Iowa 9.9 New York 9.5 Wisconsin 9.8 Kansas 9.3 North Carolina 10.3Wyoming 11.8 (a) The smallest value in the data set is 8.3(Oregon), and the largest value is 13.5 (Mississippi). Are thesevalues outliers? Explain. Any observations smaller than 8.3Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. % or larger than 13.5Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. % are considered outliers.Therefore, Oregon's data value (8.3%) Correct: Your answer iscorrect. an outlier and Mississippi's data value (13.5%) Changed:Your submitted answer was incorrect. Your current answer has notbeen submitted. an outlier. (b) Construct a boxplot for this dataset. Comment on the interesting features of the plot. The boxplotshows Incorrect: Your answer is incorrect. and the distribution is. The minimum value is %, the lower quartile is %, the median is %,the upper quartile is %, and the maximum value is %.
