Reporting with Numbers

1. 67% of the funds come from the state, 5% comes from the student tuition, and 28% comes from fees, rants, and gifts. The funds coming from the state include a lot more money than others because they have more money to give. The funds from student tuition are limited due to it coming from a smaller group of people, therefore limiting the amount of money available to be given out.

2. The average prison term for people convicted of aggravated assault is just over a year. The average probation time is 13 months. The median for prison term and for probation time is a year. 

The median is a better estimate of the time people serve in prison and with probation time because it estimates the time without being completely influenced by any outside factors. Since there is one figure that is out of the ordinary, it would throw off the numbers when calculating the mean, but it does not affect the median. 

3. California's sales tax is 7.25%.

For people who pay $5 per meal and only eat out once a week for a year, they would save $18.85.

For people who pay $20 per meal and only eat out once a week for a year, they would save $75.40.