Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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5. Choosing a Data Display
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Exercise 11 Page 367

Which data display shows data in specific categories?

Example Answer: A bar graph
Explanation: See solution.

Practice makes perfect
We are asked which data display is appropriate for representing the favorite sports of students in our class. Note that each sport represents a category, which means that we can use a bar graph to represent this categorical data.
bar graph

Please note that this is only one possible way to represent the given data — there are many other possible ways to do it.