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Data on the gasoline tax per gallon (in cents) as of a certain date for the...

Data on the gasoline tax per gallon (in cents) as of a certain date for the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia are shown below.

State Gasoline Tax
per Gallon		 State Gasoline Tax
per Gallon
Alabama 20.1 Missouri 17.6
Alaska 8.0 Montana 27.9
Arizona 19.0 Nebraska 27.8
Arkansas 21.9 Nevada 33.3
California 48.4 New Hampshire 19.4
Colorado 22.0 New Jersey 14.2
Connecticut 42.4 New Mexico 18.9
Delaware 23.0 New York 44.1
District of
   Columbia		 23.2 North Carolina 30.5
North Dakota 23.0
Florida 34.7 Ohio 28.0
Georgia 20.1 Oklahoma 17.0
Hawaii 45.3 Oregon 25.0
Idaho 25.0 Pennsylvania 32.6
Illinois 40.7 Rhode Island 33.0
Indiana 34.9 South Carolina 16.9
Iowa 22.0 South Dakota 24.0
Kansas 25.0 Tennessee 21.7
Kentucky 22.2 Texas 20.0
Louisiana 20.0 Utah 24.2
Maine 31.0 Vermont 24.8
Maryland 23.2 Virginia 19.4
Massachusetts 23.2 Washington 37.2
Michigan 35.9 West Virginia 32.5
Minnesota 27.5 Wisconsin 32.1
Mississippi 18.9 Wyoming 14.0

How do you know if they are outliers? (Enter your answers to two decimal places.)

To be an outlier, an observation would have to be greater than? or less than?

Comment on the interesting features of the plot. (Round numerical answers to the nearest cent.)

The boxplot shows that a typical gasoline tax is around ___ cents per gallon

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