Question 10.30

10.30 Accidental deaths. In 2011 there were 130,557 deaths from unintentional injury in the United States. Among these were 38,851 deaths from poisoning, 33,804 from motor vehicle accidents, 30,208 from falls, 6,601 from suffocation, and 3,391 from drowning.

  1. (a) Find the percentage of accidental deaths from each of these causes, rounded to the nearest percent. What percentage of accidental deaths were due to other causes?

  2. (b) Make a well-labeled graph of the distribution of causes of accidental deaths.