Project 5
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Eastern vs. Western States Spending on K-12 Education in 2014
Using the data below from the US Census Bureau in 2014, compare how much the states East of the Mississippi spend per year on their K-12 students with how much states West of the Mississippi spend on their K-12 students. Make sure to create a numerical display (make a picture!), describe each distribution (in terms of shape, center and spread) and answer the question: who spends more?
Data in .
Data in .
Eastern State
$ per Student
Western State
$ per Student
Alabama
9,028
Alaska
18,416
Connecticut
17,745
Arizona
7,528
Delaware
13,938
Arkansas
9,616
D.C.
18,485
California
9,595
Florida
8,755
Colorado
8,985
Georgia
9,202
Hawaii
12,485
Illinois
13,077
Idaho
6,621
Indiana
9,548
Iowa
10,688
Kentucky
9,312
Kansas
9,972
Maine
12,707
Louisiana
10,749
Maryland
14,003
Minnesota
11,464
Massachusetts
15,087
Missouri
9,875
Michigan
11,110
Montana
11,017
Mississippi
8,263
Nebraska
11,726
New Hampshire
14,335
Nevada
8,414
New Jersey
17,907
New Mexico
9,734
New York
20,610
North Dakota
12,358
North Carolina
8,512
Oklahoma
7,829
Ohio
11,354
Oregon
9,945
Pennsylvania
13,961
South Dakota
8,881
Rhode Island
14,767
Texas
8,593
South Carolina
9,732
Utah
6,500
Tennessee
8,630
Washington
10,202
Vermont
16,988
Wyoming
15,797
Virginia
10,973
West Virginia
11,260
Wisconsin
11,186
Data based on US Census Bureau. Source:
- Develop a thesis statement: You can complete the statement below or develop one of your own. You can also change your thesis statement later if your observations about the data warrant it.
- Example: The Eastern States spend more on K-12 students than the Western States.
- Include a description of the data that you are using. What is source of the data? What is the the variable of interest?
- Include graphs of both Eastern and Western States distributions with clear and accurate descriptions of each. Make observations about shape, center, spread and outliers (if there are any), for both the eastern states and the western states. Here is of these sort of observations. Include any other observations that will be useful in supporting your thesis.
- Write the analysis: Write one or more paragraphs that use your observations to analyze whether or not your thesis may be true.
Use the rubric to make sure that you include all the required parts of this project. Please ask if you have any questions.
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