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

I want candy! Mr. Starnes bought some candy for his AP庐 Statistics class to eat on Halloween. He offered the students an assortment of Snickers庐, Milky Way庐, Butterfinger庐, Twix庐, and 3 Musketeers庐 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.

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

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Step 1. Given information. 

Here are the data on the type of candy selected.

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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.

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