The director of the work-experience program at a suburban high school wants to find out the hourly wages being offered to high school students for summer jobs in the community. His secretary conducts a survey of local businesses and obtains the following results ($ per hour) for 40 different job openings:

(a) Construct a frequency distribution of the hourly wages. Use an interval width of $.20 and $3.00-$3.19 as the lowest interval.
(b) Convert the frequencies to relative frequencies (use percentages).

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The director of the work-experience program at a suburban high school wants to find out the hourly wages being offered to high school students for summer jobs in the community. His secretary conducts a survey of local businesses and obtains the following results ($ per hour) for 40 different job openings: 
  
(a) Construct a frequency distribution of the hourly wages. Use an interval width of $.20 and $3.00-$3.19 as the lowest interval. 
(b) Convert the frequencies to relative frequencies (use percentages).

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The Answer of The director of the work-experience program at a suburban high school wants to find out the hourly wages being offered to high school students for summer jobs in the community. His secretary conducts a survey of local businesses and obtains the following results ($ per hour) for 40 different job openings: 
  
(a) Construct a frequency distribution of the hourly wages. Use an interval width of $.20 and $3.00-$3.19 as the lowest interval. 
(b) Convert the frequencies to relative frequencies (use percentages).

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