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Mastering Bar Charts

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Which type of graph should be used to illustrate the differences in percentages (or counts) between categories?

Scatter plot
Histogram
Bar chart (correct)
Line graph

What does a bar chart summarize?

Categorical data (correct)
Measurement data
Continuous data
Ordinal data

What type of data should a histogram be used for?

Nominal data
Categorical data
Ordinal data
Continuous data (correct)

What does the vertical axis of a bar chart represent?

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What does the horizontal axis of a histogram represent?

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Bar Chart

A type of graph that compares categories using bars of different heights.

Categorical Data

Data that falls into distinct categories.

Histogram

A graph that displays the distribution of continuous data using bars.

Vertical Axis in a Bar Chart

The axis that shows the number of times a category appears.

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Horizontal Axis in a Histogram

The axis that shows the values measured for each category.