Bar Graphs

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What is a bar graph?

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A bar graph is a visual representation of data using bars of different heights or lengths to show the quantity of each category.

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What does the height of a bar in a bar graph represent?

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The height of a bar represents the quantity or number of votes for that category.

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What is the purpose of a bar graph?

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The purpose of a bar graph is to compare different categories of data visually.

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What do we call the information collected in a survey?

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Data.

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If a bar graph shows 10 votes for red and 5 votes for blue, how many more votes does red have than blue?

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5 votes.

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What do we call the categories in a bar graph?

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Categories are the different groups or types of data being compared.

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How can you tell which category has the most votes in a bar graph?

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You can tell by looking at which bar is the tallest.

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What is the title of a bar graph?

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The title describes what the bar graph is about.

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If blue and green both have 4 votes, what can we say about their representation in the bar graph?

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They are equal in quantity.

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What is the x-axis in a bar graph?

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The x-axis is the horizontal line that usually shows the categories.