Lesikar's Business Communication: Connecting in a Digital World 13th Edition by Kathryn Rentz,Paula Lentz

Exercise 4

For each of the types of information described below, which form of visual would you use? Explain your decision.
a. Record of annual sales for Kenyon Company for the past 20 years.
b. Comparison of Kenyon Company sales, by product, for this year and last year.
c. Monthly production of the automobile industry in units.
d. Breakdown of how the average middle-income family in your state (or province) disposes of its income dollar.
e. How middle-income families spend their income dollar as compared with how low-income families spend their income dollar.
f. Comparison of sales for the past two years for each of B B Company's 14 sales districts. The districts cover all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico.
g. National production of trucks from 1950 to present, broken down by manufacturer.
h. Relationship between list price and gas mileage of alternative and gasoline-fueled cars.
i. Home purchases by home value, geographic region, and income.