The chapter lists five different ways of reporting raw data: providing unsummarized data; oral reports; prose;

tables, and graphs. For each of the following situations, indicate which method you feel would be most appropriate:

A. Your boss is about to go into a meeting, and wants to know the approximate total sales for the month.

B. Your boss wants to know the monthly sales, by department, for the last two years. Your company has three departments. The boss needs exact figures to make certain bonus computations.

C. Your boss wants to know what factors kept a department from achieving its budget.

D. Your boss wants to compare general trends in production over the last 104 weeks for two departments.

E. Your boss wants to perform her own analysis of employee data. She is not sure exactly what she wants, but is very capable of analyzing data herself.