Understanding Basic Statistics 6th Edition by Charles Henry Brase,Corrinne Pellillo Brase

Exercise 34

Law: Corporation Lawsuits Many people say the civil justice system is overburdened. Many cases centre on suits involving businesses. The following data are based on a Wall Street Journal report. Researchers. conducted a study of lawsuits involving 1908 businesses ranked in the Fortune 1000 over a 20-ycar period. They found the following distribution of civil justice case loads brought before the federal courts involving the businesses:

Note : Contracts cases involve disputes over contracts between businesses.
(a) Make a Pareto chart of the caseloads. Which type of cases occur most frequently
(b) Make a pie chart showing the percentage of cases of each type.