Question 10.11

10.11 Marital status. In the U.S. Census Bureau document America’s Families and Living Arrangements: 2011, we find these data on the marital status of American women aged 15 years and older as of 2011:

Marital status Count
(thousands)
Never married 34,963
Married 65,000
Widowed 11,306
Divorced 13,762
  1. (a) How many women were not married in 2011?

  2. (b) Make a bar graph to show the distribution of marital status.

  3. (c) Would it also be correct to use a pie chart? Explain.