Fortune provides a list of America's largest corporations based on annual revenue. Shown below are the 50 largest corporations, with annual revenue expressed in billions of dollars (CNN Money website, January 15, 2010).

Summarize the data by constructing the following:
a. A frequency distribution (classes 0-49, 50-99, 100-149, and so on).
b. A relative frequency distribution.
c. A cumulative frequency distribution.
d. A cumulative relative frequency distribution.
e. What do these distributions tell you about the annual revenue of the largest corporations in America?
f. Show a histogram. Comment on the shape of the distribution.
g. What is the largest corporation in America and what is its annual revenue?

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Corporation Revenue 71 70 124 113 Corporation Revenue Amerisource Bergen Archer Daniels Midland AT&T Bank of America Berkshire Hathaway Boeing Cardinal Health Caterpillar 108 61 91 51 Revenue Corporation Revenue 6 ConocoPhillips Costco Wholesale 5 Procter & Gamble ance Goldman Sachs United Parcel Service United Technologies UnitedHealth Group Lowe's 7 2