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Who is Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter?
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1. What display did your group get assigned? _____________________
2. Create the display on the whiteboard and bring it to the front of the room.
3. Describe the distribution.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your type of display?
5. Below is this distribution of the number of home runs per season for Mark McGwire.
Compare this distribution to the one for Barry Bonds.
Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire’s record when he hit 73 home runs in the 2001 season. How
does this accomplishment fit with the rest of Bond’s career? Here are Bond’s home run counts
for the years 1986 to 2007.