Winter Olympics

Twenty-six countries won medals in the 2010 Winter Olympics. The following table lists them, along with the total number of medals each won.

a) Try to make a display of these data. What problems do you encounter?

b) Can you find a way to organize the data so that the graph is more successful?

a) How much larger is the proportion of those who said acquiring wealth was important in India than in the United States?

b) Is that the impression given by the display? Explain.

c) How would you improve this display?

d) Make an appropriate display for the percentages.

e) Write a few sentences describing what you have learned about attitudes toward acquiring wealth.