Graphing Data (Junior Cert Mathematics): Quizzes

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Bar Charts
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What does each bar in a bar chart represent?

A different category or group

What does the height of a bar tell us?

How much or how many in that category

Why are bar charts useful for comparing data?

You can see which is bigger or smaller

What does the xaxisx-axis show on a bar chart?

What the different bars represent

What does the yaxisy-axis show on a bar chart?

The numbers (how many or how much)

How should the scale on the yaxisy-axis increase?

Evenly (e.g. by 1s1s, 5s5s, or 10s10s)

What is the first step when reading a bar chart?

Look at the labels

If one bar is taller than another, what does this mean?

That category has a bigger number

When making a bar chart, what should you draw first?

The axes

In the worked example, how many matches were played in total?

6060 matches

In the worked example, how many total goals were scored?

115115 goals

In the worked example, what was the mean number of goals per match?

1.91.9 goals

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