Choosing Appropriate Data Displays

A line graph displays what kind of data?

• Categorical

  Bivariate

• Categorical

  Univariate

• Numerical

  Univariate

• Numerical

  Bivariate

You would like to compare the number of votes that 6 candidates received in the latest student election.

• Bar Graph

• Line Graph

• Pie Chart

• Histogram

You would like to track the total amount of monthly sales over the period of a year for three sale people.

• Line Graph

• Bar Graph

• Pie Chart

• Histogram

Choose an appropriate data display for the given situation.

• Bar Graph

• Line Graph

• Pie Chart

• Histogram

State which type of data display would best be used for each.

Dots to show how many math classes each person has taken.

• line graph

• circle

• dot plot

• scatter plot

If you are looking for exact data values, which data plot would you choose to construct?

• Dot Plots

• Histograms

• Box Plots

What is a reason you might want to use a histogram instead of a dot plot to display data? (Choose the best response.)

• The histogram allows you to show each individual data value collected rather than displaying data in "bins" like a dot plot.

• The histogram is better when you don't have repeated data values and when the data is spread out with gaps between values.

• The dot plot can be used to display quantitative data, while the histogram is used for quantitative and categorical data.

• Histograms and bar charts are basically the same and so you can convert a histogram into a bar chart.

The table shows the distances Nadia biked. She wants to highlight the mean and range in a data display. select all the appropriate data displays for the given data.

• Bar chart

• line plot

• stem- and leaf plot

• circle graph

State which type of data display would best be used for each.

Students in the top one-fourth of the class.

• line graph

• circle

• dot plot

• box-and-whisker

Display that shows change over time

• Line Graph

• Dot Plot

• Box and Whisker Plot

• Histogram