Question

Prior to graduation high-school class 0f 2000 was surveyed about their plans. The table below displays the results for white and minority students. (The “minority” group includes African-American, Asian, Hispanic, and Native-American students).

	4-year college	2-tear college	Military	Employment	Other
White Minority	198 54	36 6	4 1	14 3	16 3

1. Create an appropriate graph comparing white and minority students. (10 points)

1. Do you see any important differences in the post-graduation of white and minority students? Write a brief summary of what these data show. (6 points)

Answer 1

a) The stacked bar chart should be used here to compare the future plans for white students vs the minority students here.

Note that although we are representing the absolute numbers here, we can also have graph of the percentage share for each plan in the two categories here.

	4-year college	2-year college	Military	Employment	Other
White	74%	13%	1%	5%	6%
Minority	81%	9%	1%	4%	4%

The above data can be plotted as a stacked bar graph here as:

b) From the above graph, we can see here that majority of the people both in white and minority category have a 4 year college plan while a greater % share is for the minority whose plans are for a 4 year college.

For a 2 year college plan, the white prefer it more than the minorities.

For all the other three categories, the shares are almost similar for whites and minorities.