Types of Graphs Review

What type of graph is best for comparing parts of a whole?

• Bar Graph

• Pie Chart

• Line Graph

• Scatter Plot

Based on the following pie chart, what does this household spend the LEAST amount of money on each month?

• Housing

• Gas

• Insurance

• Entertainment

What graph shows trends over time?

• Histogram

• Line Graph

• Box-and-whisker plot

• Scatter plot

Which type of chart is best used to compare between two or more products over a range of characteristics?

• Bar Chart

• Histogram

• Pie Chart

• Spider or Radar Graph

What is the main difference between a histogram and a bar graph?

• Histograms are for numerical data, and bar graphs are for categorical data.

• Bar graphs have connected bars, while histograms do not.

• Histograms are always vertical, but bar graphs can be horizontal.

• There is no difference.

Which of these is an example of primary data collection?

• Using statistics from a government website

• Conducting a survey

• Referring to a research paper

• Accessing an online database

What type of data is represented by the following: “Number of students in each class”?

• Continuous

• Categorical

• Discrete

• Ordinal

Coach Carter recorded the number of points his players scored during the basketball season. How many players are on his team?

• 1

• 3

• 6

• 13

What does a box-and-whisker plot display?

• Averages of data sets

• Categories and frequencies

• The correlation between two variables

• The spread and outliers in a data set

What is the best sampling method to avoid bias?

• Convenience sampling

• Systematic sampling

• Stratified sampling

• Random sampling