Essentials Of Statistics For Business & Economics
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Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm, James J. Cochran
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Chapter 2.4, Problem 43E
Store Managers Time Study. The Northwest regional manager of an outdoor equipment retailer conducted a study to determine how managers at three store locations are using their time. A summary of the results are shown in the following table.
- a. Create a stacked bar chart with store location on the horizontal axis and percentage of time spent on each task on the vertical axis.
- b. Create a side-by-side bar chart with store location on the horizontal axis and side-by-side bars of the percentage of time spent on each task.
- c. Which type of bar chart (stacked or side-by-side) do you prefer for these data? Why?
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