Provide an Appropriate Response You Wish to Construct a Graph to Represent the Data

question 143

Essay

Provide an appropriate response.
-Shortly before a mayoral election, a market research firm took a poll to find out which
candidate people were planning to vote for. The results are shown below. $$\begin{array} { l | c } \text { Candidate } & \text { Frequency } \\\hline \text { Li Fong } & 2120 \\\text { Bob Green } & 2329 \\\text { Sue Moore } & 1042 \\\text { Jose Alvarez } & 399\end{array}$$ You wish to construct a graph to represent the data. It should be easy to see from your
graph which candidate is in the lead. Which graph would be more useful, a bar graph or a
pie chart? Explain your thinking.

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Definitions:

Marginal Benefits

The boost in pleasure or benefit experienced from the consumption or creation of one extra unit of a good or service.

Marginal Costs

The boost in total charges incurred by producing one more unit of a product or service.

Rational Self-interest

Acting in a way that is most beneficial to oneself, based on logical and reasoned decision-making.

Utility

In economics, the satisfaction or benefit derived from consuming a product or service.