What's Your (Chart) Type?

William, David, and Avery are working on a school project. They have collected data are deciding how to present it. When would they use a line chart instead of a bar chart?

• When they want to show changes over time

• When they want to compare categories

• When they are dealing with parts of a whole

• When they want to show frequency distribution

Jackson, Noah, and Sophia are dividing their shared candies. If they want to represent the distribution of candies among them as percentages, which chart should they use?

• Pie Chart

• scatter plot

• stacked bar

• histogram

Henry, Oliver, and Benjamin are working on a school project about data representation. They are confused about one aspect. What distinguishes a histogram from a bar chart in their project?

• Histograms are used for representing the favorite colors of their classmates

• Histograms show the trend of their school's football team's scores over time

• Histograms display the distribution of the heights of students in their class

• Histograms compare the number of pets owned by different groups of students

Anika, Henry, and Ethan are working on a science project. They want to understand the relationship between the time spent studying and the grades received. Which type of chart should they use?

• Scatter plot, as it shows the relationship between two variables

• Pie chart, as it shows how a part relates to the whole

• Histogram, as it shows the distribution of a dataset

• Bar chart, as it compares the frequency of categories

Nora, Mia, and Samuel are running a lemonade stand over the summer. They want to visualize their cumulative earnings over time. Which type of chart would be most effective for this?

• Line chart

• Area chart

• Pie chart

• Scatter plot

Marketing analyst Alex needs to illustrate in a single chart how each product line's monthly sales figures compare throughout the last year. Which chart should Alex select for a clear visual comparison of the two product lines across the same time period?

• Stacked Bar Chart

• Clustered Bar Chart

• Area chart

• Pie Chart

Grace, Zoe, and Henry are working on a project where they need to compare the sales data of different products over the same time period. Which type of line chart would be best for this purpose?

• Simple line chart

• Multi-line chart

• Stacked line chart

• Area line chart

James, Ethan, and Maya are working on a project. They have collected some data and are deciding how to represent it. When is it most appropriate for them to use a histogram instead of a bar chart?

• When the data they collected is continuous and they want to show frequencies within intervals

• When they have categorical data and want to compare frequencies

• When they want to show the relationship between two variables

• When they want to show how individual parts make up a whole

John and Lilly need to visualize the flow and proportions of a city's waste management pathways from collection to final disposal. What type of diagram should they use?

• radial chart

• sankey diagram

• area chart

• box and whiskers plot

Emma, Liam, and Ava are working on a project. They have collected some data on the heights of their classmates. Which type of chart should they use to represent this data?

• Bar chart, as it compares the frequency of categories

• Line chart, as it shows changes over time

• Histogram, as it shows the distribution of a dataset

• Pie chart, as it shows how a part relates to the whole