Q 12. - The Practice of Statistics for AP

Question

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

as follows: accidents, $15,567$; homicide, $5359$; suicide, $4139$; cancer, $1717$; heart disease, $1067$; congenital defects, $483$

(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

Part (b) Aside from the listed reasons, the additional information needed to make a pie chart includes the number of fatalities in the previous year in the United States, as well as the count of deaths owing to other causes.

Part (a) The pie chart is  

Part (a) Step 1: Given Information

According to the data, the table is drawn below: 

Reasons of death number	Number of death accidents
Accidents	15567
Homicide	5359
Suicide	4139
Cancer	1717
Heart disease	1067
Congenital defects	483

Part (a) Step 2: Concept

The distribution of a category variable is displayed using pie charts and bar graphs. Any set of quantities measured in the same units can be compared using bar graphs. It's a good idea to ask yourself, "What do I see?" when looking at any graph. 

Part (a) Step 3: Explanation

The above information is listed in the following table.

Reason of death	Number of deaths
Accidents	15567
Homicide	5359
Suicide	4139
Cancer	1717
Heart disease	1067
Congenital defects	483

The bar chart is drawn in excel by selecting the two columns of the above table. 

Part (b) Step 1: Explanation

When a phenomenon is separated into sub-events, a pie chart is utilized. The overall number of deaths is separated into deaths due to 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 information on this yields deaths due to other causes, which aren't included in the data.