Spam Email spam is the curse of the Internet. Here is a compilation of the most common types of spam:

(a) What percent of spam would fall in the “Other” category?

(b) Display these data in a bar graph. Be sure to label your axes and title your graph.

(c) Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart of these data? Explain.

Given data on the proportion of spam and their type

The distribution of a category variable is displayed using pie charts and bar graphs. Any set of quantities measured in the same units can be compared using bar graphs. It's a good idea to ask yourself, "What do I see?" when looking at any graph.

The above information is listed in the following table.

Since the total percentage will add up to $100$, the percentage of other spam is $100-19+20+7+7+6+25+9=100-93=7$

Hence, the percentage of other spam is $7\%$

The bar chart is drawn in excel by selecting the two columns of the above table.

When a phenomenon is broken down into sub-events and each event is represented in the diagram by a sub-component, the pie chart is utilized. Because there is no missing data, each category's number of spam is represented as a sector in a pie graphic.