Sheet # 442 Choosing a Suitable Graph
Name_________________________Date:_____________
Explain and Show Your Work.
Pictographs and bar graphs are useful for making visual comparison of similar data.
Broken-line graphs are used with continuous data that change over time.
Circle graphs can be used when parts of a whole are being compared.
Which types of graphs would be suitable to display the following data?
a) the price of gold on five successive days.
b) the populations of the continents.
c) the number of hours of sunshine each day for a week.
d) the change in the population of a city over a five-year period.
e) the percent of the newspaper that is used for stories, for photographs and for advertisements.
f) the heights of the six highest mountains in the world.
g) the height of a plant recorded every 10 days.
Answers for sheet # 442
a) line graph.
b) bar graph
c) line graph
d) line graph
e) circle graph
f) bar
g) line