The Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA provides statistics on the most popular majors among incoming college freshmen. The five most popular majors are Arts and Humanities (A), Business Administration (B), Engineering (E), Professional (P), and Social Science (S) (The New York Times Almanac, 2006). A broad range of other (O) majors, including biological science, physical science, computer science, and education, are grouped together. The majors selected for a sample of 64 college freshmen follow.

S P POBEOEP OOBOOOA OEEBS OBOAOEOEOBP BASOEABOS S OOEBOB AEBEAAP OOEOBBOP B

a. Show a frequency distribution and percent frequency distribution.

b. Show a bar chart.

c. What percentage of freshmen select one of the five most popular majors?

d. What is the most popular major for incoming freshmen? What percentage of freshmen select this major?