The following summary, table, presents the breakdown of the price of a new college textbook:

a. Using the four categories of publisher, bookstore, author, and freight, construct a bar chart, a pie chart, and a Pareto chart.
b. Using the four subcategories of publisher and three subcategories of bookstore, along with the author and freight categories, construct a Pareto chart.
c. Based on the results of (a) and (b), what conclusions can you reach concerning who gets the revenue from the sales of new college textbooks? Does any of these results surprise you? Explain.

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Revenue Category Publisher Percentage ( %) 64.8 Manufacturing costs Marketing and promotion Administrative costs and taxes After-tax profit 32.3 15.4 10.0 Bookstore 22.4 Employee salaries and benefits Operations 11.3 6.6 4.5 Pretax profit Author Freight Source: Data extracted from T. Lewin, "When Books Break the Bank 11.6 The New York Times, 16, 2003, pp. BI, B4