Question 10.14

10.14 Murder weapons. The 2010 Statistical Abstract of the United States reports FBI data on murders for 2007. In that year, 49.6% of all murders were committed with handguns, 18.4% with other firearms, 12.1% with knives or other cutting implements, 5.8% with a part of the body (usually the hands, fists, or feet), and 4.4% with blunt objects. Make a graph to display these data. Do you need an “other methods’’ category? Why?

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Figure 10.13: Figure 10.13 Comparing interest rates, Exercise 10.12.
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Figure 10.14: Figure 10.14 Changing attitudes on same-sex marriage by generational cohort, Exercise 10.13. (Data from Pew Research Center)