Assignment Task

Part A

A survey asked three questions to pet owners:

• How many pets do you own?
• Do you like cats, dogs, or neither cats nor dogs the best?
• How much time in hours does your pet(s) stay home on average per day?

Create an appropriate graph for each question using Minitab. Identify what type of data is obtained from each question (qualitative, quantitative discrete, or quantitative continuous). Use one pie chart, one bar graph and one histogram. Copy the graphs to a word file and indicate which type of data near the graph. You can copy graphs from Minitab and then paste them into a word document and then you will be able to write in the type of data that each is.

Note: Histograms are good for continuous data because the bars do not have spaces between them, and continuous data does not have jumps between numbers.

Part B

Find a poster that is on a topic that interests you and that contains a pie graph. Be sure you can answer the questions below by looking at your pie graph.

1. Copy the pie graph from the poster 
2. Pie graphs usually show percentages and should add up to 100%. Does your pie graph add to 100%? If it doesn’t, why not?
3. What would have been the question that was asked to gather the data displayed on your pie graph? Remember that the question is usually qualitative.