Question 1.29

1.29 Your Facebook app can generate a million dollars a month.

A report on Facebook suggests that Facebook apps can generate large amounts of money, as much as $1 million a month.13 The following table gives the numbers of Facebook users by country for the top 10 countries based on the number of users. It also gives the increases in the number of Facebook users for the one-month period from May 15, 2014, to June 15, 2014.14

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Country Facebook users (in millions)
Brazil 29.30
India 37.38
Mexico 29.80
Germany 21.46
France 23.19
Philippines 26.87
Indonesia 40.52
United Kingdom 30.39
United States 155.74
Turkey 30.63
  1. Use a bar graph to describe the numbers of users in these countries.
  2. Do you think that the United States is an outlier in this data set? Explain your answer.
  3. Describe the major features of your graph in a short paragraph.

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(b) The United States is a clear outlier. They have 4 or 5 times as many Facebook users as the other countries, despite having a population smaller than some of the other countries. (c) The United States dominates; many other countries shown have similar amounts of Facebook users.