Big Ideas Math Integrated I, 2016
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5. Choosing a Data Display
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Exercise 25 Page 368

Set the scale of the vertical axis to have increments of ten.

Example Answer:

Annual sales bar graph. The vertical axis represents the number of sales, in millions of dollars, ranging from 0 to 110. The horizontal axis corresponds to the years, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. The sales numbers for each respective year are 100,101,103, and 104 million dollars.
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Consider the given bar graph.
bar graph

We are asked to redraw the above graph to make it not misleading. The scale on the vertical axis of the graph has small increments. Therefore, to correct the graph let set the scale to have increments of ten.

bar graph

Please note that we are only showing one possible solution of the many possible.