What might account for the gaps seen in the histogram

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A recently hired investment analyst has been assigned to analyze the companies that make up the Fortune 800, a collection of the largest U.S. companies. He codes each company by the type of industry to which they belong. Here is a table showing some of the industry types and the corresponding codes he uses:

Industry	Industry Code
Financial Services	1
Food/ drink/ tobacco	2
Health	3
Insurance	4
Retailing	6
Forest products	9
Aerospace / defense	11
Energy	12
Capital goods	14
Computers/ communication	16
Entertainment/ information	17
Consumer nondurables	18
Electric utilities	19

The analyst produces the following histogram of the industry codes for the companies:

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a) What might account for the gaps seen in the histogram?

b) Is the histogram unimodal?

c) What advice might you give the analyst about the appropriateness of this display?

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