A CFO Is Looking at How Much the Company Is

question 4

Multiple Choice

A CFO is looking at how much the company is spending on computing.He samples companies in the pharmaceutical industry and develops the following stem-and-leaf graph. 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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