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Figure 13-12
Absentee Data
figures to the average also requires row processing, as does printing the table. We can calculate the percentage differences while we print the table.
To compile the summary figures for the week, we must take the number of people absent on each day, divided by the total number of people absent during the entire week. A bar chart showing this information might look as follows, with each asterisk representing 10 percent:
     Monday    Tuesday  Wednesday   Thursday     Friday
100%
 90%
 80%
 70%
 60%
 50%
 40%   *
 30%   *
 20%   *          *                                *
 10%   *          *          *          *          *
This chart has the following interpretation: 40 percent of the total absences were on Monday, 20 percent were on Tuesday, and so on.
We can represent this chart as a two-dimensional array with ten rows and five columns. The rows represent the percentages to the nearest 10 percent.

 
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