Q. 12 - The Practice of Statistics for AP

Question

Deaths among young people among persons aged 15 to 24 and 15 to 24 years in the United States, the leading causes of death and number of deaths in a recent year were;

(a) Make a bar graph to display these data.

(b) To make a pie chart, you need one additional piece of information. What is it?

 

Step-by-Step Solution

Answer

a) The width and the height have to same with the bars and the number of deaths. 

b) The exact age groups of the deaths. 

Step 1: Given Data

According to the data,the chart is drawn below;

Accidents	15,567
Homicide	5359
Suicide	4139
Cancer	1717
Heart disease	1067
Congenital defects	483.11

Part(a) Step 1: Bar graph to display data

Bar graph formation: 

The width and the height have to same as the bars and the number of deaths.

 

Part (b) Step 1: Making of pie chart

When a phenomena is separated into sub-events, a pie chart is utilised. The overall number of deaths is separated into deaths caused by various causes such as accidents, heart diseases, homicide, suicide, and congenital problems, however there is no information on the total number of deaths in the previous year. The data on this reveals deaths due to other causes, which aren't included in the data.

Aside from the mentioned reasons, which is a count of fatalities owing to various causes, other information needed to build a pie chart is the number of deaths in the previous year in the United States.