Categorising and Displaying Data

Sort the following data items into their correct categories.

Groups:

(a) CATEGORICAL - Ordinal

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(b) CATEGORICAL - Nominal

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(c) NUMERICAL - Discrete

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(d) NUMERICAL - Continuous

• House number

• Vehicle type

• Weight

• Number of books read

• Height

• Number of cars owned

• How many pets owned

• Time taken to complete a task

• Phone number

• Age group

• Temperature

• Number of siblings

• Favourite AFL Team

• Hair colour

• Distance travelled

• Rating

• Postcode

• Number of bedrooms

• Education Level

• Amount of daily ferry passengers

What type of graph is this?

• A histogram

• A stem and leaf plot

• A Scatterplot

• A bar chart

What type of Chart is this?

• A pie chart

• A frequency chart

• A stem chart

• A bar chart

How many bicycles were seen?

How many people travelled by road?
(Assume that bike riders travel on bicycle paths not roads)

Which type of plot is used to display the distribution of a dataset?

• A box plot

• A line graph

• A pie chart

• A radar chart

Which chart is best for comparing parts of a whole?

• A scatter plot

• A histogram

• A pie chart

• A stem and leaf plot

What type of graph is this?

• Frequency graph

• Histogram

• Column graph

• Stem Graph

This is a graph showing the kilometres travelled over a period of time while riding a bike.

What is the difference between the distance most travelled and the distance least travelled

What type of chart is this?

• Bar Chart

• Pie Chart

• Circle Chart

• Quadrant Chart