Questions: Deaths among young people. Here are the number of deaths among persons aged 15 to 24 years in the United States in 2010 due to the leading causes of death for this age group: accidents, 12,015; homicide, 4651; suicide, 4559; cancer, 1594; heart disease, 984; congenital defects, 401. (a) Make two bar graphs of these data: One with bars ordered alphabetically (by death type) and the other with bars ordered from tallest to shortest. Comparisons are easier if you order the bars by height. (b) What additional information do you need to make a pie chart?

Solution Steps

(a) To create the bar graphs, we need to first organize the data into a dictionary or similar structure. Then, we can use a plotting library like matplotlib to create two bar graphs: one ordered alphabetically by the cause of death and the other ordered by the number of deaths from tallest to shortest.

(b) To make a pie chart, we need the total number of deaths to calculate the percentage each cause contributes to the whole. This information is already provided in the data.

We have the number of deaths among persons aged 15 to 24 years in the United States in 2010 due to various causes:

• Accidents: 12,015
• Homicide: 4,651
• Suicide: 4,559
• Cancer: 1,594
• Heart Disease: 984
• Congenital Defects: 401

Sorting the data alphabetically by the cause of death, we get:

• Accidents: 12,015
• Cancer: 1,594
• Congenital Defects: 401
• Heart Disease: 984
• Homicide: 4,651
• Suicide: 4,559

Sorting the data by the number of deaths from tallest to shortest, we get:

• Accidents: 12,015
• Homicide: 4,651
• Suicide: 4,559
• Cancer: 1,594
• Heart Disease: 984
• Congenital Defects: 401

The total number of deaths is: \[ \text{Total deaths} = 12,015 + 4,651 + 4,559 + 1,594 + 984 + 401 = 24,204 \]

Final Answer