Question

I want candy! Mr. Starnes bought some candy for his AP® Statistics class to eat on Halloween. He offered the students an assortment of Snickers®, Milky Way®, Butterfinger®, Twix®, and 3 Musketeers® candies. Each student was allowed to choose one option. Here are the data on the type of candy selected. Make a relative frequency bar graph to display the data. Describe what you see.

Short answer

The width of the bar must be the same, and the height of the bar must be equal to the frequency.

Step-by-step solution

Step 1. Given information. 

Here are the data on the type of candy selected.

Step 2. To display the data, create a relative frequency bar graph. Describe your observations.

Let us first calculate the frequency of each possible outcome in the data set, which is the number of times the outcome appears in the data set.

Outcome	Frequency
Twix	10
Butterfinger	7
3 Musketeers	2
Snickers	8
Milky way	3

Bar graph of frequency

The width of the bars must be the same, and the height must be equal to the frequency.

As a results:

The width of the bar must be the same, and the height of the bar must be equal to the frequency.