Parking at a University Has Become a Problem

question 9

Multiple Choice

Parking at a university has become a problem. University administrators are interested in determining the average time it takes a student to find a parking spot. An administrator inconspicuously followed 90 students and recorded how long it took each of them to find a parking spot. Which of the following types of graphs should not be used to display information concerning
The students parking times?

• A) box plot
• B) stem-and-leaf display
• C) pie chart
• D) histogram

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Definitions:

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