Graphs and data

Which type of data is that which is categorical?

• continuous

• discontinuous/

  discrete

What type of data has any value?

• continuous data

• discontinuous data/ discrete data

What is "height" an example of?

• continuous data

• discontinuous data/ discrete data

What is "hair colour" an example of?

• continuous data

• discontinuous data/ discrete data

When which type of graph do you use for discrete/discontinuous data?

• Bar chart

• scattergraph

Which type of graph should you use for continuous data?

• bar chart

• scattergraph

I wanted to know what type of house a group of people lived in (terrace, semi detached, detached, bungalow etc ). What graph would I use for this data?

• bar chart

• scatter graph

How should you plot points on a scatter graph?

• blobs

• circles

• crosses

What should be in pen on your graph?

• plotted points, labels, axes and title

• labels and title only

• axes and points only

• only the title

On a bar chart, bars should...

• be the same width and distance apart

• be a different with but the same distance apart

• be the same width but different distances apart

• be different widths and distances apart