The Mathematics of Money

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3. Speedywheels Bicycle Manufacturing is launching an advertising campaign to emphasize the high quality of its bicycles.
   A major biking magazine recently completed an assessment of quality and reliability for major bike manufacturers, and
   gave Speedywheels’ bicycles a rating of 945 points. The ratings for other manufacturers were:

Competitor Rating

A 582

B 703

C 771

D 406

E 811

Create a bar chart that the company could use in its ad campaign.

4. Frank’s Falafel Hut started out with a single franchised location in 2002, and has been rapidly growing, adding more
   and more new locations each year. The number of franchised locations at the end of each year is shown below:

End of Year Number of Franchises

2002 1

2003 4

2004 9

2005 16

2006 25

2007 36

To highlight the company’s success in a prospectus for potential franchise owners, Frank wants to include a line graph

showing this growth. Create a line graph he could use for this.

B. Grab Bag

5. For each of the situations given below, decide whether a pie chart, bar chart, or line graph would be the most
   appropriate choice to use.

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