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Following is the number of shareholders for a selected group of large companies (in thousands):


Company

Number ofShareholders(thousands)

 

 

 

Company

Number of Shareholders (thousands)

Southwest Airlines

144

Standard Oil (Indiana) Home Depot

Detroit Edison Eastman Kodak Dow Chemical Pennsylvania Power

American Electric Power Ohio Edison Transamerica Corporation Columbia Gas System International Telephone &

Telegraph

Union Electric

Virginia Electric and Power Public Service Electric & Gas Consumers Power

173

General Public Utilities

177

195

Occidental  Petroleum

266

220

Middle South Utilities

133

251

Chrysler

209

137

Standard Oil of California

264

150

Bethlehem Steel

160

262

Long Island Lighting

143

158

RCA

246

162

Greyhound  Corporation

151

165

Pacific Gas & Electric

239

 

Niagara Mohawk Power

204

223

E. I. du Pont de Nemours

204

158

Westinghouse  Electric

195

162

Union Carbide

176

225

BankAmerica

175

161

Northeast Utilities

200

The shareholder numbers are to be organized into a frequency distribution and several graphs drawn to portray the distribution.

a. Using seven classes and a lower limit of 130, construct a frequency distribution.

b. Portray the distribution as a frequency polygon.

c. Portray the distribution in a cumulative frequency polygon.

d. According to the polygon, three out of four (75 percent) of the companies have how many shareholders or less?

e. Write a brief analysis of the number of shareholders based on the frequency distribution and graphs.

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