Question: Who makes more? A manufacturing company is reviewing the salaries of its full-time employees below the executive level at a large plant. The clerical staff is almost entirely female, while a majority of the production workers and technical staff is male. As a result, the distributions of salaries for male and female employees may be quite different. The following table gives the frequencies and relative frequencies for women and men.
(a) Explain why the total for women is greater than 100%.
(b) Make histograms for these data, choosing the vertical scale that is most appropriate for comparing the two distributions.
(c) Write a few sentences comparing the salary distributions for men and women.