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ProjectScenario:

You are a journalist for a hometown newspaper. Youhave received a number of phone calls and emails from readers whoare concerned about how much they are paying for gasoline. One ofthe readers wrote the following:

            “Ithink, on average, that a driver in our town pays more for a gallonof regular

             gasoline than a driver in other towns in our state.”

Your editor asks you to investigate the gasolineprices of four towns (similar in size to your town, town B) andwrite a short article about your findings. You have gathered somedata, shown in Table 1 below. The data represents the price paidfor one gallon of regular gasoline from a random sample of gasstations in each of the four towns.

Table 1- The retail price for one gallon ofregular gasoline at 10 randomly selected stations in four towns asof September 1, 2017.

Town A
Town B
Town C
Town D
2.73
2.75
2.72
2.79
2.71
2.71
2.71
2.71
2.68
2.72
2.69
2.73
2.68
2.74
2.77
2.72
2.71
2.77
2.71
2.75
2.72
2.78
2.72
2.78
2.71
2.75
2.74
2.71
2.74
2.79
2.76
2.78
2.71
2.80
2.71
2.72
2.69
2.75
2.75
2.74

Writing theArticle:

- Now that you have gathered and analyzed your data,you are ready to write your article for thenewspaper. Please be sure to make it a minimum of one fullpage in length, 12 pt. Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with1-inch margins all around.

- You are to include at least 1 graph that bestrepresents your data analysis, your original table of data, andreference to at least 3 of the questions noted above. Your articleis to be well-written and free from spelling and grammaticalmistakes. Appropriate citations should be included if you arereferencing researched data or comments made by others in yourarticle. Please try to make your article interesting and creative,complete with an appropriate story headline.