You have been provided the list of categories of religions i

You have been provided the list of categories of religions in your city. The list is too long to present to upper management. Collapse the categories and justify your answer.

Solution

Since you have to club up some classes as the list is too long to present, we have to see the data where the percentage is significant and where it is insignificant. Since Catholic, Protestant and Jewish hold (32+50+14)=96% of the total population, so you can\'t collapse those catogories. Where as Buddhish, Atheist,Hedonist, Islam and Others does not contribute significantly to the population. So you can accumulate those catogories and Name to combined category as Others aand total percentage will be (0.6+0.4+0.5+0.5+2)=4%. So the table will be :

Otherwise You can summarize the table in the following way. One category for theist and one is for atheist. then the percent of theist will be (100-0.4)=99.6%. the table wiill be