Question

O DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICInterpreting relative frequency-histogramsStudents at a major university in Southern California are complaining about a serious housing crunch. Many of the university's students, they complain, have tocommute too far to school because there is not enough housing near campus. The university officials' response is to perform a study. The study, reported in theschool newspaper, contains the following histogram summarizing the commute distances for a sample of 100 students at the university:Relative frequencyCommute distance (in miles)Based on the histogram, find the proportion of commute distances in the sample that are at least 16 miles. Write your answer as a decimal, and do not roundyour answer

Answer 1

Since the graph gives us the relative frequency we just have to add those who are more or equal to 16; in this case we have to add 0.11 and 0.06, therefore the proportion in this case is 0.17