A CFO Is Looking at What Percentage of a Company's

question 99

Multiple Choice

A CFO is looking at what percentage of a company's resources are spent on computing. He samples companies in the pharmaceutical industry and develops the following stem-and-leaf display (leaf unit = 0.1) . What would be the class length used in creating a frequency histogram?

• A) 1.4
• B) 8.3
• C) 1.2
• D) 1.7
• E) 0.9

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