This table summarizes retail sales of breakfast bars for 2004. The data record sales from most retail outlets, except for Wal-Mart, which keeps this sort of information confidential. Total sales in this product category was $513,209,024. (Manufacturing Confectioner, April 2005.)

(a) Do you believe that the underlying data table has a row for every bar or package of breakfast bars that was sold in 2004? How would you expect the underlying data to be organized?
(b) Show a chart of the shares of the total market by brand. Be sure to account for other brands that did not make the top 10.
(c) Prepare a chart that shows the amounts sold by the six named manufacturers. The audience for this chart expects to see the dollar amounts and can figure out the shares for themselves.

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Manufacturer Brand Kelloggs Kelloggs General Mills Milk N Cereal Bars Quaker Quaker Atkins Kelloggs Retailer Quaker Slim Fast Snack Options Sales $102,551,232 $50,757,024 $49,445,124 $32,836,244 $29,525,036 $27,970,354 $25,565,480 $23,880,972 Nutri Grain Bars Special K Bar Fruit & Oatmeal Oatmeal Breakfast Sq. Morning Start Cereal & Milk Bars Private Label Fruit & Oatmeal Bites $19,356,590 $18,917,658