Q:

A restaurant manager recorded the number of people in different age groups who attended her food festival: Histogram with title Food Festival Participants, horizontal axis labeled Age Group (yr) with bins 0 to 19, 20 to 39, 40 to 59, and 60 to 79 and vertical axis labeled Number of People with values from 0 to 60 at intervals of 10. The first bin goes to 20, the second goes to 40, the third goes to 60, and the last goes to 50. Which of the following frequency tables represents the data in the histogram accurately? Age Group (year) Number of People 0–19 20 20–39 60 40–59 40 60–79 50 Age Group (year) Number of People 0–19 20 20–39 60 40–59 50 60–79 40 Age Group (year) Number of People 0–19 20 20–39 40 40–59 60 60–79 50 Age Group (year) Number of People 0–19 60 20–39 20 40–59 40 60–79 50

Accepted Solution

A:
There are 3 times as many participants in the 40–59 age group than in the 0–19 age group is the one statement among the following choices given in the question that best compares the height of the bars of the histogram. The correct option would be " There are 3 times as many participants in the 40–59 age group than in the 0–19 age group."