Question

Below are the home states of 19 college professors.

New Jersey Ohio Michigan Georgia Nebraska
Wisconsin Ohio South Carolina Pennsylvania Michigan
Georgia New Jersey Wisconsin Georgia Ohio
Florida Georgia New Jersey South Carolina


i. Make a frequency table using these 9 states:

Florida
Georgia
Michigan
Nebraska
New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Wisconsin

ii. What is (are) the mode(s)?
iii. Does it make sense to talk about the average for this data?

Answer 1

frequency means how many times that state has appeared in the data
can u tell me what is the frequency of new jersey?

Answer 2

2

Answer 3

how 2?
does it appear only 2 times?
or more than that?

Answer 4

3 sorry

Answer 5

ok,so now u can calculate frequency of each state ,right?

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

ok,now there are 19 states in total
do u know how to find % of total for each state?

Answer 8

no

Answer 9

% of total for new jersey will be frequency/total=3/19
did u get this?

Answer 10

sorry,(3/19)*100

Answer 11

so would that be 33.3. Just divide 3/100

Answer 12

no,3*100/19=300/19=15.79%

Answer 13

so florida is 1 so that would be 5.2%

Answer 14

yes,u got it,do this for every other state...
better write it as 5.26%

Answer 15

what about measure of central angles?

Answer 16

for that instead of multiplying by 100,u multiply by 360
for new jersey
3*360/19
got it?

Answer 17

56.84

Answer 18

yes,but u got it how it came?
do it for other states....

Answer 19

it says what is the mode in the question? the mode is what?

Answer 20

The mode is the number that appears most often in a set of numbers.

Answer 21

so which state appears maximum number of times??

Answer 22

georgia

Answer 23

correct,so your mode is georgia...which appears 4 times

Answer 24

when it says on the fourth part using the frequency table draw a pie chart is it referring to the graph below it or do i need to make a pie chart

Answer 25

u have to make the pie chart
u use central angle for making pie chart

Answer 26

how do i do that can u give me an example or formula. what is central angle? wht inforation do i put into it. the percentage part? o make 9 different sections and put the percentage in each one of them

Answer 27

i already told u about the % part.....check it...3*100/19 for new jersey...
draw pie chart as below....i'll write for new jersey,u write for others,so for new jersey u got central angle as 56.84 degrees,right?so i will make a sector as shown with its central angle=56.84 degrees