Chapter 1: Q 4.3. (page 41)
Is this a bar graph or a histogram?

Short Answer
The given graph is a bar graph.
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Chapter 1: Q 4.3. (page 41)
Is this a bar graph or a histogram?

The given graph is a bar graph.
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Olympic gold! The following table displays the total number of gold medals won by a sample of countries in the Summer Olympic Games in China.
(a) Make a dot plot to display these data. Describe the overall pattern of the distribution and any deviations from that pattern.
(b) Overall, countries participated in the Summer Olympics, of which won at least one gold medal. Do you believe that the sample of countries listed in the table is representative of this larger population? Why or why not?

Cool car colors The most popular colors for cars and light trucks change over time. Silver passed green in to become the most popular color worldwide, then gave way to shades of white in . Here is the distribution of colors for vehicles sold in North America in
(a) What percent of vehicles had colors other than those listed?
(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.

El Ni帽o and the monsoon It appears that El Ni帽o, the periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean west of South America, affects the monsoon rains that are essential for agriculture in India. Here are the monsoon rains (in millimeters) for the strong El Ni帽o years between and
(a) To make a stem plot of these rainfall amounts, round the data to the nearest 10, so that stems are hundreds of millimeters and leaves are tens of millimeters. Make two stem plots, with and without splitting
the stems. Which plot do you prefer?
(b) Describe the shape, center, and spread of the distribution.
(c) The average monsoon rainfall for all years from to is about millimeters. What effect does El Ni帽o appear to have on monsoon rains?

Phosphate levels The level of various substances in the blood influences our health. Here are measurements of the level of phosphate in the blood of a patient, in milligrams of phosphate per deciliter of blood, made on 6 consecutive visits to a clinic: 5.6, 5.2, 4.6, 4.9, 5.7, 6.4. A graph of only 6 observations gives little information, so we proceed to compute the mean and standard deviation. (a) Find the standard deviation from its definition. That is, find the deviations of each observation from the mean, square the deviations, then obtain the variance and the standard deviation. (b) Interpret the value of sx you obtained in (a)
The National Survey of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was "What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next ten years?" Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender: Your percent from the previous exercise is part of-
(a) the marginal distribution of gender.
(b) the marginal distribution of opinion about marriage.
(c) the conditional distribution of gender among adolescents with a given opinion.
(d) the conditional distribution of opinion among adolescents of a given gender.
(e) the conditional distribution of 鈥淎lmost certain鈥 among females.

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