The Northwest regional manager of an outdoor equipment retailer conducted a study to determine how managers at three store locations are using their time. A summary of the results is shown in the following table.

a. Create a stacked bar chart with store location on the horizontal axis and percentage of time spent on each task on the vertical axis.
b. Create a side-by-side bar chart with store location on the horizontal axis and side- by-side bars of the percentage of time spent on each task.
c. Which type of bar chart (stacked or side-by-side) do you prefer for these data?Why?

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Percentage of Manager's Work Week Spent on Store Location Bend Portiand Seattle Meetings 18 52 32 Reports Customers 52 24 37 Idle 19 13 14 17