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TABLE2.25:(continued)
State Percentage Total Amount of Municipal Waste
in Thousands of Tons
Iowa 32 3462
Kansas 11 4250
Kentucky 28 4418
Louisiana 14 3894
Maine 41 1339
Maryland 29 5329
Massachusetts 33 7160
Michigan 25 13500
Minnesota 42 4780
Mississippi 13 2360
Missouri 33 7896
Montana 5 1039
Nebraska 27 2000
Nevada 15 3955
New Hampshire 25 1200
New Jersey 45 8200
New Mexico 12 1400
New York 39 28800
North Carolina 26 9843
North Dakota 21 510
Ohio 19 12339
Oklahoma 12 2500
Oregon 28 3836
Pennsylvania 26 9440
Rhode Island 23 477
South Carolina 34 8361
South Dakota 42 510
Tennessee 40 9496
Utah 19 3760
Vermont 30 600
Virginia 35 9000
Washington 48 6527
West Virginia 20 2000
Wisconsin 36 3622
Wyoming 5 530(a) Identify the variables in this example and identify which one is the explanatory and which one is the response
variable.
(b) How much municipal waste was created in Illinois?
(c) Draw a scatterplot for this data.
(d) Describe the direction and strength of the association between the two variables.
- The following line graph shows the recycling rates of two different types of plastic bottles in the US from
1995 to 2001.