Question

ii. What is (are) the mode(s)?
iii. Does it make sense to talk about the average for this data? Why or why not?
iv. Using your frequency table draw a pie chart to display the distribution of home states by filling in the following table

Answer 1

i just have to finish filling out the frequency tables. and draw a pie chart to display distribution of home state.

Answer 2

Mode is the data item that appears most frequently. In your case New Jersey and Ohio, dual modal datum.

Answer 3

i am completely failing this class and i have asked the prof for help and she says "look in the Ebook." i have one test to take... and hopefully i can get my grade up on this

Answer 4

I am not very familiar with statistics, had it a long time ago. My daughter just finished hers, but is out of town.

Answer 5

hmm lol my daughters have never seen this type of math...

Answer 6

My daughter is 52 and is going for her Masters in Nursing at University of Tn

Answer 7

sweet...

Answer 8

howdy :)

Answer 9

I am thinking that rather than New Jersey is the mode it is the number of New Jersey which is 3

Answer 10

hi amistre

Answer 11

Hi

Answer 12

Your thoughts amisttre

Answer 13

your iv part can be redone; the first part is asking for how many times a state occurs, which is the top part of the fractions; the percentage itself is the fraction

Answer 14

let me revise it for you ...

Answer 15

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

Answer 16

the mode itself is 'bi modal' being a tie between ohio and new jersey

Answer 17

i got that answer.. :) i just need help filing out the rest.. lol

Answer 18

Have you done the pie chart yet?

Answer 19

Excellent,

Answer 20

since the data is nominal (name based) an average might be an ackward measure. Its hard to determine which states is "average", it could be that the mode would determine an average, but its bi modal so that doesnt even apply

Answer 21

and that is the best I can do with those questions :)

Answer 22

Is the Mode 3 or is it New Jersy?

Answer 23

Mode is in reference to the data itself; how often it occurs. With nominal data it is just the name, with numerical data its a number

Answer 24

Thanks, I finally came to that conclusion also.

Answer 25

Don't fail us sandii2006, keep slugging away at it. Good luck.

Answer 26

i have not done the pie chart yet

Answer 27

Well the data is there including the central angle. Do you have a graphing program that makes a pie type graph. Will Excel do it?

Answer 28

no i dont have a graphing program.

Answer 29

neither do I, I use "Open Office" i am going to check and see if it will make a pie chart.

Answer 30

ok

Answer 31

Looks like all I can get is "bar charts"
I guess you could use a compass and protractor

Answer 32

hmmm the pie chart is where its a circle right? and then its a percentage of each one right?

Answer 33

Yes, and amistre has already computed the central angle for each item, however you will need to distinguish the different states by a collor or crosshatch or just delineate the borders and write it in.

Answer 34

ok....

Answer 35

There will be eight "slices" and New Jersey and Ohio will be the largest slice and Nebraska the smallest, you get the drift.

Answer 36

this is my eyeballed rendition of a piechart

Answer 37

Beyoooutiful

Answer 38

lol .... interior design was never my strong point

Answer 39

how did u make it? i need to know so i can make it and post it.. lol what program

Answer 40

windows has a standard paint utility called "paint". its usually under the path:

start, programs, accessories, paint

Answer 41

ok found that.. lol

Answer 42

i drew a circle and eyeballes the lines according to my extensive knowledge of ...well... using my eyes lol

Answer 43

lmao... nice.. well i suck at it!

Answer 44

Well I did not find paint, but I found a grapher on my Imac that may come in handy later. No pie chart, but polar, default, etc.

Answer 45

sandii2006, I would just take what is there, and label the slices, the brown and purple is New Jersey and Ohio

Answer 46

It will take some work, you will succeed with it,sorry your professor can't be more helpful. CUL

Answer 47

I think i got it.. :)

Answer 48

It didn't show up for me, but I don't have word

Answer 49

looks good :)