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Which color was chosen by approximately one-eighth of the customers?
To know what a "one-eighth" slice looks like, we take a circle and cut it into eight equally sized pie slices. Each of the slices is one-eighth of the pie:
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We want to find a category in the favorite color pie chart whose slice has approximately the same shape as the one-eighth slice shown above. If we look carefully at the graph, we find that it could only be the Grey category.
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Approximately what percentage of the customers chose Grey or Pink?
Write your answer as a multiple of - that is, .
The categories Grey and Pink combined take up a little less than of the pie. Because , we know that the categories Grey and Pink must have been chosen by a little less than of the customers. Because the answer must be a multiple of , the correct answer is .
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If of the customers chose Blue, approximately what percentage chose Other?
Note that the Other pie slice is approximately one-third the size of the Blue pie slice. So if the Blue slice represents of the customers, then the Other slice must represent approximately of the customers.
The answer is:
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Histograms for grouped dataHere are the shopping times (in minutes) for a sample of shoppers at a particular clothing store: |
Draw the histogram for these data using an initial class boundary of , an ending class boundary of , and classes of equal width. Note that you can add or remove classes from the figure. Label each class with its endpoints. |
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Additional Resources |
Elementary Statistics (A Brief Version), 6th Ed.
BlumanChapter 2: Frequency Distributions and GraphsSection 2.2:...