Log out Go to App
Go to App

Learning Materials

Features

Discover

Chapter 1: Q. R1.2 (page 83)

I want candy! Mr. Starnes bought some candy for his AP® Statistics class to eat on Halloween. He offered the students an assortment of Snickers®, Milky Way®, Butterfinger®, Twix®, and 3 Musketeers® candies. Each student was allowed to choose one option. Here are the data on the type of candy selected. Make a relative frequency bar graph to display the data. Describe what you see.

Short Answer

Expert verified

The width of the bar must be the same, and the height of the bar must be equal to the frequency.

Step by step solution

01

Step 1. Given information. 

Here are the data on the type of candy selected.

02

Step 2. To display the data, create a relative frequency bar graph. Describe your observations.

Let us first calculate the frequency of each possible outcome in the data set, which is the number of times the outcome appears in the data set.

OutcomeFrequency
Twix10
Butterfinger7
3 Musketeers
2
Snickers8
Milky way3

Bar graph of frequency

The width of the bars must be the same, and the height must be equal to the frequency.

As a results:

The width of the bar must be the same, and the height of the bar must be equal to the frequency.

Unlock Step-by-Step Solutions & Ace Your Exams!

  • Full Textbook Solutions

    Get detailed explanations and key concepts

  • Unlimited Al creation

    Al flashcards, explanations, exams and more...

  • Ads-free access

    To over 500 millions flashcards

  • Money-back guarantee

    We refund you if you fail your exam.

Start your free trial

Over 30 million students worldwide already upgrade their learning with Vaia!

One App. One Place for Learning.

All the tools & learning materials you need for study success - in one app.

Get started for free

Most popular questions from this chapter

Snickers® are fun! Here are the weights (in grams) of 17 Snickers Fun Size bars from a single bag:

17.117.416,617.417.717.117.317.717.8
19.216.015.916.516.816.517.116.7

Part (a). Make a stemplot of these data.

Part (b). What interesting feature does the graph reveal?

Part (c). The advertised weight of a Snickers Fun Size bar is 17 grams. What proportion of candy bars in this sample weigh less than advertised?

You look at real estate ads for houses in Naples, Florida. There are many houses ranging from \(200,000 to \)500,000 in price. The few houses on the water, however, are priced up to $15 million. The distribution of house prices will be

a. skewed to the left.

b. roughly symmetric.

c. skewed to the right.

d. single-peaked.

e. too high.

Body imageA random sample of 1200 U.S. college students was asked, “What is your perception of your own body? Do you feel that you are overweight, underweight, or about right?” The two-way table summarizes the data on perceived body image by gender.

(a) What percent of respondents feel that their body weight is about right?

(b) What proportion of the sample is female?

(c) What percent of respondents are males and feel that they are overweight or underweight?

Which major? About 3 million first-year students enroll in colleges and universities each year. What do they plan to study? The pie chart displays data on the percent of first-year students who plan to major in several disciplines. About what percent of first-year students plan to major in business? In social science?

Returns on common stocks The return on a stock is the change in its market price plus Page Number: 51 any dividend payments made. Return is usually expressed as a percent of the beginning price. The figure shows a histogram of the distribution of monthly returns for the U.S. stock market over a 273-month period.

Part (a). Describe the overall shape of the distribution of monthly returns.

Part (b). What is the approximate center of this distribution?

Part (c). Explain why you cannot find the exact value for the minimum return. Between what two values does it lie?

Part (d). A return less than 0 means that stocks lost value in that month. About what percent of all months had returns less than 0?
See all solutions

Recommended explanations on Math Textbooks

Decision Maths

Read Explanation

Geometry

Read Explanation

Calculus

Read Explanation

Pure Maths

Read Explanation

Logic and Functions

Read Explanation

Mechanics Maths

Read Explanation
View all explanations

What do you think about this solution?

We value your feedback to improve our textbook solutions.

Study anywhere. Anytime. Across all devices.

Sign-up for free