Mix and Match

1. Proportion of automobiles sold during the last quarter by eight major manufacturers
- Bar chart, Relative Frequency
2. Number of different types of defects found in computer equipment
- Frequency table, Frequency
3. Number of cash-back coupons returned by purchasers of cameras, computers, and stereo
equipment
- Bar Chart, Frequency
4. Counts of the type of automobile involved in police traffic stops
- Bar Chart, Frequency
5. Destinations for travelers leaving the United States and heading abroad
- Bar Chart, Relative Frequency
6. Reason for customers hanging up when calling a computer help desk
- Pareto Chart, Frequency
7. Excuses given for not finishing homework assignments on time
- Pareto Chart, Frequency
8. Brand of computer chosen by new students of a large university
- Pie Chart, Relative Frequency
9. Share of software purchases devoted to games, office work, and design
- Bar Chart, Frequency
10. Customer choices of compact, zoom, and high-end digital cameras
- Bar Chart, Frequency
11. Number of cellular telephone customers rating their service as Poor, OK, Good, and Great
- Bar Chart, Frequency
12. Share of bank loans that are in good standing, 30 days past due, and in default
- Bar Chart, Relative Frequency

True or False

1. Charts are better than frequency tables as summaries of the distribution of a categorical
variable. - True
2. If all of the bars in a bar chart have the same length, then the categorical variable shown in the
bar chart has no variation. - False, the must be one category.
3. The frequency of a category is the dollar value of the observations in that group. -False, as item
4. A relative frequency is the number of observations belonging to a category.-False,its proportion
5. Use a bar chart to show frequencies and a pie chart to show shares of a categorical variable that
is not ordinal. -True
6. The area principle says that the proportion of the area of a graph devoted to a category must
match the number of cases found in the category. -False, proportion must match frequency
7. Put the labels of the categories in order in a bar chart when showing the frequencies of an
ordinal variable. -True
8. The bar chart of a recoded categorical variable has the same number of bars as the bar chart of
the original categorical variable. -False, fewer bars.
9. A Pareto chart puts the modal category first. -True
10. The median of a categorical variable is the category with the most items.-False,its in the middle
Think about it

30. This table summarizes shares of the U.S. wireless telephone market in 2011. To summarize these
percentages together in a pie chart, what needs to be added?

The numbers given add up to 91%, so I think you would need to add “others 9%”

Company Share (%)

AT&T 32
Verizon 31
Sprint 17
T-Mobile 11

31. What would happen if we were to generate a bar chart for a column that measures the amount
spent by the last 200 customers at a convenience store?

If the amount spent by 200 customers is not classified into broad categories, then the data is not
suitable for representation using the bar chart.

37. A categorical variable has two values, male and female. Would you prefer to see a bar chart, a pie
chart, or a frequency table? Why?

I think I would choose a pie chart, because for only two variables, its summary will give the most
information.