Choosing a Data Display

Display that shows change over time

• Line Graph
• Line Plot
• Box Plot
• Histogram

Display that shows frequency of data divided into equal intervals

• Box Plot
• Histogram
• Line Graph

What is misleading about this data?

• The y-axis is labeled incorrectly.
• The age ranges are different.
• The title is incorrect

What data display is the best to to show a person's age and income?

• Scatter Plot

• Bar Graph

• Circle Gaph

• Stem and Leaf Plot

What data display is the best to show the price of gas over the past year?

• Bar Graph

• Histogram

• Stem-Leaf Plot

• Line Graph

What data display is the best to show the variability of students' test scores?

• Dot Plot

• Scatter Plot

• Box and Whisker Plot

• Circle Graph

What data display is the best to show a person's height compared to their shoe size?

• Scatter Plot

• Circle Graph

• Stem-Leaf Plot

• Historgram

What data display is the best to show the population of the United States divided into age groups?

• Histogram

• Dot Plot

• Scatter Plot

• Box Whisker Plot

What data display is the best to show the percent of students at LMS that Speak Spanish, Chinese and German?

• Bar Graph

• Box-Whisker Plot

• Scatter Plot

• Dot Plot

What does the squiggly line sometimes used at the beginning of they -axis of a coordinate plane let the reader know?

• A range of numbers was skipped

• The title of the y-axis

• The interval of the y-axis

• The initial number being used on the y-axix