Entrepreneur magazine ranks franchises using performance measures such as growth rate, number of locations, startup costs, and

Question:

Entrepreneur magazine ranks franchises using performance measures such as growth rate, number of locations, startup costs, and financial stability. The number of locations for the top 20 U.S. franchises follow (The World Almanac, 2012).

Use classes 0-4999, 5000-9999, 10,000-14,999 and so forth to answer the following questions.
a. Construct a frequency distribution and a percent frequency distribution of the number of U.S. locations for these top-ranked franchises.
b. Construct a histogram of these data.
c. Comment on the shape of the distribution.

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