1.25 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.⁹ The following table gives the numbers of Facebook users by country for the top 10 countries based on the number of users:¹⁰

1.26 Facebook use increases by country. Refer to the previous exercise. The report also gave the increases in the number of Facebook users for a one-month period for the same countries:

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1.27 The Titanic and class. On April 15, 1912, on her maiden voyage, the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sank. The ship was luxurious but did not have enough lifeboats for the 2224 passengers and crew. As a result of the collision, 1502 people died.¹¹ The ship had three classes of passengers. The level of luxury and the price of the ticket varied with the class, with first class being the most luxurious. There were 323 passengers in first class, 277 in second class, and 709 in third class.¹²

1.28 Another look at the Titanic and class. Refer to the previous exercise.

1.29 Who survived? Refer to the two previous exercises. The number of first-class passengers who survived was 200. For second and third class, the numbers were 119 and 181, respectively. Create a graphical summary that shows how the survival of passengers depended on class.

1.30 Potassium from potatoes. The 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans¹³ notes that the average potassium (K) intake for U.S. adults is about half of the recommended amount. A major source of potassium is potatoes. Nutrients in the diet can have different absorption depending on the source. One study looked at absorption of potassium from different sources. Participants ate a controlled diet for five days, and the amount of potassium absorbed was measured. Data for a diet that included 40 milliequivalents (mEq) of potassium were collected from 27 adult subjects.¹⁴

1.31 Potassium from a supplement. Refer to the previous exercise. Data were also recorded for 29 subjects who received a potassium salt supplement with 40 mEq of potassium. Answer the questions in the previous exercise for the supplemented subjects.

1.32 Energy consumption. The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports data summaries of various energy statistics. Let’s look at the total amount of energy consumed, in quadrillions of British thermal units (Btu), for each month in a recent year. Here are the data:¹⁵

1.33 Energy consumption in a different year. Refer to the previous exercise. Here are the data for the previous year:

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1.34 Favorite colors. What is your favorite color? One survey produced the following summary of responses to that question: blue, 42%; green, 14%; purple, 14%; red, 8%; black, 7%; orange, 5%; yellow, 3%; brown, 3%; gray, 2%; and white, 2%.¹⁶ Make a bar graph of the percents and write a short summary of the major features of your graph.

1.35 Least-favorite colors. Refer to the previous exercise. The same study also asked people about their least-favorite color. Here are the results: orange, 30%; brown, 23%; purple, 13%; yellow, 13%; gray, 12%; green, 4%; white, 4%; red, 1%; black, 0%; and blue, 0%. Make a bar graph of these percents and write a summary of the results.

1.36 Garbage. The formal name for garbage is “municipal solid waste.” In the United States, approximately 250 million tons of garbage are generated in a year. Following is a breakdown of the materials that made up American municipal solid waste in 2012:¹⁷

1.37 Vehicle colors. Vehicle colors differ among regions of the world. Here are data on the most popular colors for vehicles in North America:¹⁸

1.38 Sketch a skewed distribution. Sketch a histogram for a distribution that is skewed to the left. Suppose that you and your friends emptied your pockets of coins and recorded the year marked on each coin. The distribution of dates would be skewed to the left. Explain why.

1.39 Grades and self-concept. Table 1.3 presents data on 78 seventh-grade students in a rural midwestern school.¹⁹ The researcher was interested in the relationship between the students’ “self-concept” and their academic performance. The data we give here include each student’s grade point average (GPA), score on a standard IQ test, and gender, taken from school records. Gender is coded as F for female and M for male. The students are identified only by an observation number (OBS). The missing OBS numbers show that some students dropped out of the study. The final variable is each student’s score on the Piers-Harris Children’s Self-Concept Scale, a psychological test administered by the researcher.

1.40 Describe the IQ scores. Make a graph of the distribution of IQ scores for the seventh-grade students in Table 1.3. Describe the shape, center, and spread of the distribution, as well as any outliers. IQ scores are usually said to be centered at 100. Is the midpoint for these students close to 100, clearly above, or clearly below?

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1.41 Describe the self-concept scores. Based on a suitable graph, briefly describe the distribution of self-concept scores for the students in Table 1.3. Be sure to identify any suspected outliers.

1.42 The Boston Marathon. Women were allowed to enter the Boston Marathon in 1972. Here are the times (in minutes, rounded to the nearest minute) for the winning women from 1972 to 2015.

Make a graph that shows change over time. What overall pattern do you see? Have times stopped improving in recent years? If so, when did improvement end?