What size should my bin widths for this density historgram and data set be? I th

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What size should my bin widths for this density historgram and data set be? I thought of using equal bin width sizes of 10, but would that make the density histogram misleading? If so, what unequal bin width sizes should I use instead? More specifically, is it a good idea to ever use unequal bin width sizes? I'm confused and I already asked this question on Chegg but the expert said to make bind width sizes of 54 for a total of 4 class intervals but that seems the bin width would be too large and the question asks specifically for "reasonable bin width sizes."

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The data seems to be bit positively skewed or left skewed, since too many observations are from lower part. A bin width of 5 could have been used, but in that case we will have too many bins. So it seems bin width of 10 will be the best choice. Unequal bin sizes doesn't look like good option.

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