An undergraduate statistics class is assigned a project in which they are to sam

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An undergraduate statistics class is assigned a project in which they are to sample 500 books from the university library and record the copyright year, the number of pages, and whether the book is hard cover or paperback. Determine the most appropriate way in which the students should illustrate the data on these variables. Choose all that apply.

a) Copyright Year:

If you are having difficulties with this question you may want to review pages 22 and 29 in Mind on Statistics.

b) Number of Pages:

If you are having difficulties with this question you may want to review pages 22 and 29 in Mind on Statistics.

c)Hard Cover vs. Paperback:

Explanation / Answer

a) Histogram (year is a quantitative variable) b) histogram (pages is quantitative) c) bar graph (HC/PB is categorical and bar graphs are better than pie charts)

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