Question

The American Medical Association Center for Health Policy Research included data, by state, on the number of community hospitals and the average patient stay (in days) in its publication State Health Care Data: Utilization, Spending, and Characteristics. The data (by state) are shown in the table. State No. of Hospitals Average Length of Stay State No. of Hospitals Average Length of Stay State No. of Hospitals Average Length of Stay Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware D.C. Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas 119 16 61 88 440 71 35 8 11 227 162 19 41 209 113 123 133 7.0 5.7 5.5 7.0 6.0 6.8 7.4 6.8 7.5 7.0 7.2 9.4 7.1 7.3 6.6 8.4 7.8 Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York N. Carolina 107 136 38 51 101 175 148 102 133 53 90 21 27 96 37 231 117 6.9 6.7 7.2 6.8 7.0 7.3 8.7 7.2 7.4 10.0 9.6 6.4 7.0 7.6 5.5 9.9 7.3 N. Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island S. Carolina S. Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington W. Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming 47 193 113 66 236 12 68 52 122 421 42 15 98 92 59 129 27 11.1 6.6 6.7 5.3 7.5 6.9 7.1 10.3 6.8 6.2 5.2 7.6 7.0 5.6 7.1 7.3 8.5 Make a stem-and-leaf display of the data for the average length of stay in days. (Use the digit(s) to the left of the decimal point as the stem and the digit to the right as the leaf. Enter NONE in any unused answer blanks.)

Answer 1

Answer:

5. 2,3,5,5,6,7

6. 0,2,4,6,6,7,7,8,8,8,9,9

7. 0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3,3,4,4,5,5,6,6,8

8. 0,4,5,7

9. 4,6,9

10. 0,3

11. 1,0

12

15

16

19

21

27. 0,0

35

37

38

41

42

47

51

52

53

59

61

66

68

71

88

90

96

98

101

102

107

113. 0,0

117

119

122

123

129

133. 0,0

136

148

162

175

193

209

227

231

236

421

440