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.

QMETH $201,$ Homework $1$

Franchise

# U$.$S$.$

Locations Franchise

# U$.$S$.$

Locations

Hampton Inns $1,864$ Jan$-$Pro Franchising Intl. Inc. $12,394$

am$/$pm $3,183$ Hardee's $1,901$

McDonald's $32,805$ Pizza Hut Inc. $13,281$

$7-$Eleven Inc. $37,496$ Kumon Math & Reading $25,199$

Supercuts $2,130$ Dunkin Donuts $9,947$

Days Inn $1,877$ KFC Corp. $16,224$

Vanguard Cleaning Sys $2,155$ Jazzercise Inc. $7,683$

Servpro $1,572$ Anytime Fitness $1,618$

Subway $34,871$ Matco Tools $1,431$

Denny's Inc. $1,668$ Stratus Building $5,018$

Using classes $0-4999,50009999,10000-14,999$ 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. $($SHOW WORK; $1$ pt$)$

b$)$ Construct a histogram of these data. $($SHOW WORK; $1$ pt$)$

c$)$ Comment on the shape of the distribution. $(0\mathrm{.}5$ pt