Breakdown of deaths in the united states

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1. The National Center for Health Statistics reports the following age breakdown of deaths in the United States during 2006. Source: The New York Times Almanac 2009, p. 392.

Age (Years) Number of Deaths (Thousands)

Construct a frequency distribution and a histogram for these data.

2. The accompanying data describe the hourly wage rates (dollars per hour) for 30 employees of an electron- ics firm:

under 15	39.80	22.66	24.39	17.31	21.02	21.61	20.97	18.58	16.61
15-under 25	34.23	19.74	21.57	20.56	22.16	20.16	18.97	22.64	19.62
25-under 35	41.93	22.05	22.03	17.09	24.60	23.82	17.80	16.28	19.34
35-under 45	84.79	22.22	19.49	22.27	18.20	19.29	20.43

45-under 55 183.53

55-under 65 275.30

65-under 75 398.36

75 or over 1389.83

Identify the following for the 45-under 55 class:

(a) frequency, (b) upper and lower limits, (c) width, and (d) midpoint.

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