Choose oneof the scenarios below to analyze and answer.Your textbook readings will be a good resource for this assignment as these images and questions are from the textbook

First Choice

1. Death rate According to Median Income:

Death Rate According to Median Household Income:

Source:Analysis of federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Did you know that 17.1% is more than double 15.6%? "Ridiculous!" you say.

1a.Explain how the graph suggests such a relationship.

1b.How could this misrepresentation be corrected?

1c. Redraw this graph to correctly show the relationship between 17.1% and 15.6%.

Second choice:

2.The pie chart is drawn correctly, but it gives an incorrect impression.Working Extra Years for Retirement

Source:Sun Life survey of 1,200 adults 30 to 66 years old. Margin of error: 3 percentage points.

2a.The area of each circle segment should be proportional to the percentage it represents. Explain how you can use the ribs of the umbrella to verify that the segments are correctly drawn.

2b.Explain why and how the graph is misrepresentative.

Third choice

What do you Plan to Spend your Tax Refund on?

Source:National Retail Federation 2009 Tax Returns Consumer Intentions and Actions survey of 8,426 consumers. Margin of error 1 percentage point.

This statistical offering is a rather clever graphic using artistic license along with bills as the bars of a bar graph. An "A for effort," as you have heard before, but the scale aspects of the graph have been compromised.

3a.Identify how and where the scale for percentage is misrepresented.

3b.If you were advising the artist, how would you have him or her adjust the bills to correct the problem described in answer to part a?