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Question: Illegal guns. A study by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) (USA Today, 22 June 2000) surveyed 1530 investigations by the U.S. BATF into illegal gun trafficking from July 1996 through December 1998. The study reports the portion of cases that were the result of each of five gun-trafficking violations:

46% Straw purchase (legal gun buyer acting on behalf of an illegal buyer)

21% Unlicensed sellers

14% Gun shows and flea markets

14% Stolen from federally licensed dealers

10% Stolen from residences

a) State the W s for this study to the extent that the story gives them.

b) What do you notice about the percentages listed? What does that probably mean?

c) Make a bar chart to display these results, and label it correctly.

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