Companies planning to introduce a new product in the market must define

Companies planning to introduce a new product in the market must define the "target" for the product.  Age and gender are two of the most important demographic variables.  The following two-way describes the age and marital status of American women in 1999.  The table’s entries are in thousands of women.

• Compute the marginal distribution of marital status for all adult women (use percent’s).  Use excel to create a bar chart to display this distribution.

• Insert this graph into Word and discuss it.

• Compare the conditional distributions of marital status for women aged 18 to 24 and women ages 40 to 64.  Discuss the most important difference between the two age groups.

• Your company is planning a magazine aimed at women who have never been married.  Find the conditional distribution of age among never-married women and display it in a bar graph. Insert this graph into word.  Discuss what age group or groups you would suggest to your magazine to target.