Deaths 2011 A National Vital Statistics Report

Chapter 4, Problem 24E

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Problem 24E

Deaths 2011 A National Vital Statistics Report (www.cdc.gov/nchs/) indicated that nearly 290,000 black Americans died in 2011, compared with just over 2 million white Americans. Below are histograms displaying the distributions of their ages at death.

a) Describe the overall shapes of these distributions.

b) How do the distributions differ?

c) Look carefully at the bar definitions. Where do these plots violate the rules for statistical graphs?

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