Question: 2. How many hours per week do you spend on e-mail? Data are presented here for a GSS sample of 99 men and women, who

2. How many hours per week do you spend on e-mail? Data are presented here for a GSS sample of 99 men and women, who each reported the number of hours they spent per week on e-mail.

  1. Compute the cumulative frequency and cumulative percentage distribution for the data.
  2. What proportion of the sample spent 2 hours or less per week on e-mail?
  3. What proportion of the sample spent 7 or more hours per week on e-mail?
  4. Construct a graph that best displays these data. Explain why the graph you selected is appropriate for these data.
E-mail Hours per Week Frequency Cumulative Frequency Cumulative Percentage
0 hours 19
1 hour 20
2 hours 13
3 hours 5
4 hours 2
5 hours 6
6 hours 5
7 hours 2
8 hours 3
9 hours 1
10 or more hours 23

3. One of your classmates hypothesizes that people of color are far less likely to own their own home than white people. Use the following data, which draws from GSS18SSDS-B, to test your classmate's hypothesis.

Home Ownership Race Total
White Black
Own or is buying 475 64 539
67.7% 41.3% 63%
Pays rent 227 91 318
32.3% 58.7% 37%
Total 702 155 857
100% 100% 100%
  1. Based on your classmate's argument, what is the dependent variable? The independent variable?
  2. What percentage of those surveyed own their own home?
  3. Using the percentages in the table, describe the relationship between race and home ownership.

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