Describe the overall shapes of given distributions

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A National Vital Statistics Report (www.cdc.gov/nchs/) indicated that nearly 300,000 black Americans died in 2003 compared with just over 2 million white Americans. Here are histograms displaying the distributions of their ages at death.

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a) Describe the overall shapes of these distributions.

b) How do the distributions differ?

c) Look carefully at the bar definitions. Where do these plots violate the rules for statistical graphs?

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