A newspaper article entitled "Study: TV Shows Tend to Be Bi-coastal" reports in November 2004 that of all that year's 1,696 cable and network series, "a whopping 601 called California home and 412 were set in New York state."8
a. What percentage of series were located in other settings besides California and New York?
b. Would this percentage be considered a statistic or a parameter?
c. Draw a pie chart to display the information, using three "slices."
d. Draw a bar graph to display the information, using the vertical axis for counts.
e. Draw a bar graph to display the information, using the vertical axis for percents.
f. Describe at least two possible ways to order the bars in your graph.
g. Explain why the process of statistical inference would not be appropriate for the data presented.