
Mathematics: A Practical Odyssey
8th Edition
ISBN: 9781305104174
Author: David B. Johnson, Thomas A. Mowry
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 4.1, Problem 1E
To study the library habits of students at a local college, thirty randomly selected students were surveyed to determine the number of times they had been to the library during last week. The following results were obtained:
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a. Organize the given data by creating a frequency distribution.
b. Construct a pie chart to represent the data.
c. Construct a histogram using single-valued classes of data.
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