On the first day of class, a statistics professor asks her students to report their eye color. These data are distributed as follows:
green = 25 students, brown = 55 students, blue = 30 students, other = 6 students.
What is the variable of interest in this study? What type of variable is this? Construct a frequency table for these data. Sketch a bar graph for these data.
What will be an ideal response?
eye color
nominal/categorical
Eye Color of Students
Color f %
Green 25 21.5%
Brown 55 47.5%
Blue 30 26%
Other 6 5%
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