Histograms, Frequency Polygons, and Time Series Graphs · Exercise 17

Following are the 2010 obesity rates by U.S. states and Washington, DC.

\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline \text{State} & \text{Percent (%)} & \text{State} & \text{Percent (%)} & \text{State} & \text{Percent (%)} \\ \hline \text{Alabama} & \text{32.2} & \text{Kentucky} & \text{31.3} & \text{North Dakota} & \text{27.2} \\ \hline \text{Alaska} & \text{24.5} & \text{Louisiana} & \text{31.0} & \text{Ohio} & \text{29.2} \\ \hline \text{Arizona} & \text{24.3} & \text{Maine} & \text{26.8} & \text{Oklahoma} & \text{30.4} \\ \hline \text{Arkansas} & \text{30.1} & \text{Maryland} & \text{27.1} & \text{Oregon} & \text{26.8} \\ \hline \text{California} & \text{24.0} & \text{Massachusetts} & \text{23.0} & \text{Pennsylvania} & \text{28.6} \\ \hline \text{Colorado} & \text{21.0} & \text{Michigan} & \text{30.9} & \text{Rhode Island} & \text{25.5} \\ \hline \text{Connecticut} & \text{22.5} & \text{Minnesota} & \text{24.8} & \text{South Carolina} & \text{31.5} \\ \hline \text{Delaware} & \text{28.0} & \text{Mississippi} & \text{34.0} & \text{South Dakota} & \text{27.3} \\ \hline \text{Washington, DC} & \text{22.2} & \text{Missouri} & \text{30.5} & \text{Tennessee} & \text{30.8} \\ \hline \text{Florida} & \text{26.6} & \text{Montana} & \text{23.0} & \text{Texas} & \text{31.0} \\ \hline \text{Georgia} & \text{29.6} & \text{Nebraska} & \text{26.9} & \text{Utah} & \text{22.5} \\ \hline \text{Hawaii} & \text{22.7} & \text{Nevada} & \text{22.4} & \text{Vermont} & \text{23.2} \\ \hline \text{Idaho} & \text{26.5} & \text{New Hampshire} & \text{25.0} & \text{Virginia} & \text{26.0} \\ \hline \text{Illinois} & \text{28.2} & \text{New Jersey} & \text{23.8} & \text{Washington} & \text{25.5} \\ \hline \text{Indiana} & \text{29.6} & \text{New Mexico} & \text{25.1} & \text{West Virginia} & \text{32.5} \\ \hline \text{Iowa} & \text{28.4} & \text{New York} & \text{23.9} & \text{Wisconsin} & \text{26.3} \\ \hline \text{Kansas} & \text{29.4} & \text{North Carolina} & \text{27.8} & \text{Wyoming} & \text{25.1} \\ \hline\end{array}
Construct a bar graph of obesity rates of your state and the four states closest to your state. Hint—Label the x-axis with the states.

This is an open-ended exercise: its source gives no single answer.

OpenStax, Statistics · §2.2 Histograms, Frequency Polygons, and Time Series Graphs · Exercise 17