Farmer Brown, Who Also Serves as the Community's Shakespearean Quantitative

Essay

Farmer Brown, who also serves as the community's Shakespearean Quantitative Critic, delivered a plea at the county fair, asking farmers from the county's three groups to lend him unshelled corn. (You might be able to figure out how he would phrase his pleas.) The number of bushels offered by the farmers is shown below. What can you conclude about the three groups? $$\begin{array} { c c c } \text { Friends } & \text { Romans } & \text { Countrymen } \\\hline 25 & 14 & 8 \\31 & 18 & 15 \\17 & 10 & 11 \\22 & 16 & 7 \\27 & 9 & 13 \\29 & 10 & 12\end{array}$$