Question

The Pew Research Center asked a random sample of adults whether they had favorable or unfavorable opinions of a number of major companies. Here are the percents with favorable opinions for several of the companies:

Company                     Percent Favorable

Apple                           71        

Ben and Jerry’s           59

Coors                           53

Exxon/Mobil               44

Google                        73

Halliburton                  25

McDonald’s                 71

Microsoft                    78

Starbucks                    64

Wal-Mart                    68

Make a graph that displays these data. Use a straight edge, write neatly and label everything. What kind of data is this? Does that affect your choice of a graph?

Answer 1

This is ordinal variable and that affect choice of graph