8.4 Statistical Literacy

This web page portrays altitudes in the United States.

What do you think?

What part of the state of Texas (North, South, East, or West) contains the highest elevation?

West Texas.

Adapted from Online Statistics Education: A Multimedia Course of Study (onlinestatbook.com), Project Leader: David M. Lane, Rice University. Developed with NSF support. The original work is in the public domain; it is cited here at the authors' request. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with native MathML. License: Public-Domain.