Question: The accompanying graphical display is from the Fall 2008 Census Enrollment Report at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It uses both a pie chart and

The accompanying graphical display is from the Fall 2008 Census Enrollment Report at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. It uses both a pie chart and a segmented bar graph to summa-rize ethnicity data for students enrolled in Fall 2008.

The accompanying graphical display is from the Fall 2008 Census

a. Use the information in the graphical display to construct a single segmented bar graph for the ethnicity data.
b. Do you think that the original graphical display or the one you created in Part (a) is more informative? Explain your choice.
c. Why do you think that the original graphical display for-mat (combination of pie chart and segmented bar graph) was chosen over a single pie chart with seven slices?

Native American 0.8% African Nonresident alien 1.2% Unknown/Other 9.6% Hispanic/ American Fall 2008 total enrollment Latino 11.3% 1.1% Nonwhite 24.2% White Asian American 1 1 .0% 650%

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