R1.3 I'd die without my phone! In a survey of over 2000 U.S. teenagers by Harris Interactive, 47% said that "their social life would end or be worsened without their cell phone."46 One survey question asked the teens how important it is for their phone to have certain features. The following figure displays data on the percent who indicated that a particular feature is vital. 60 Percent who said vital 50 40 30 20 10 0 46% 0 Make/receive calls 39% 19% 17% 0 Send/receive Camera Send/receive text messages pictures Feature Starnes & Tabor, The Practice of Statistics, 6e, © 2018 Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers a. Explain how the graph gives a misleading impression. b. Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart to display these data? Why or why not?
R1.3 I'd die without my phone! In a survey of over 2000 U.S. teenagers by Harris Interactive, 47% said that "their social life would end or be worsened without their cell phone."46 One survey question asked the teens how important it is for their phone to have certain features. The following figure displays data on the percent who indicated that a particular feature is vital. 60 Percent who said vital 50 40 30 20 10 0 46% 0 Make/receive calls 39% 19% 17% 0 Send/receive Camera Send/receive text messages pictures Feature Starnes & Tabor, The Practice of Statistics, 6e, © 2018 Bedford, Freeman & Worth High School Publishers a. Explain how the graph gives a misleading impression. b. Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart to display these data? Why or why not?
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In a survey of over 2000 U.S. teenagers by Harris Interactive, 47% said that "their social life would end or be worsened without their cell phone." One survey question asked the teens how important it is for their phone to have certain features. The following figure displays data on the percent who indicated that a particular feature is vital.
a. Explain how the graph gives a misleading impression.
b. Would it be appropriate to make a pie chart to display these data? Why or why not?
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