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5. Choosing a Data Display
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Exercise 21 Page 368

Consider the given bar graph.

bar graph

We will describe how the graph is misleading and how someone might misinterpret it. Note that the scale on the vertical axis has very small increments. Therefore, someone might believe that the annual sales more than tripled from to when actually, it increased by only about million. Please note that we are only showing one of the many possible interpretations.