Graphing & describing Data in everyday life

Suppose that you have two sets of data to work with. The first set is a list of all the injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month’s time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. You can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each data set.

For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information. To organize your data would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency table, or a relative frequency table? Why?

What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph?

Follow-up questions:

How might different distributions affect the graphs for the first and second datasets?
Are there any other types of graphs that could be used to display the data in these datasets?
How might other factors, such as age or gender, affect the distribution of injuries or wait times?