Gaucher, Friesen, and Kay (2011) found that words they identified as “masculine-themed” (such as competitive, independent, analyze, strong) are commonly used in job recruitment materials, especially for job advertisements in male-dominated areas. In a similar study, a researcher counted the number of masculinethemed words in job advertisements for job areas, and obtained the following data.

Area Number of Masculine Words Plumber 14 Electrician 12 Security guard 17 Bookkeeper 9 Nurse 6 Early-childhood educator 7 Determine what kind of graph would be appropriate for showing this distribution and sketch the frequency distribution graph.