Murder weapons. The 2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States reports FBI data on murders for 2005. In that year, 50.5% of all murders were committed with handguns, 17.3% with other firearms, 12.8% with knives, 6.0%

with a part of the body (usually the hands or feet), and 4.1% with blunt objects.

Make a graph to display these data. Do you need an “other methods” category?

Why?

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