Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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5. Choosing a Data Display
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Exercise 18 Page 367

Each month can be seen as a specific category.

Example Answer:

Practice makes perfect

Consider the given data set.

Average Precipitation (Inches)
January 1.1 July 4.0
February 1.5 August 4.4
March 2.2 September 4.2
April 3.7 October 3.5
May 5.1 November 2.1
June 5.5 December 1.8

From the data, we can see that each month can be seen as a specific category. Therefore, a different way to display the data is with a bar graph. Let's do it!

Showing Our Work

Data Display We Used Previously
Since a line graph allows us to see how data changes over time, we used it previously to display the given data set.