Bar Graphs and Histograms

PRINCESS C. BARCEGA
APG SCHOOL, MANAMA, BAHRAIN

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What do you know about

bar

graph? double bar graph? Histogram?

Bar Graph

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Mandarin

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English
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A bar graph can be used to display and compare data The scale should include all the data values and be easily divided into equal intervals.

How to interpret a Bar Graph?

The bar graph shows Mr. Snowdens students by gender and band membership.

How many of Mr. Snowdens students are band members? How many of Mr. Snowdens students are not band members?

1
Female band

Female not Male band band

Male not band

Double Bar Graph

90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Qtr Qtr Qtr Qtr

Can be used to compare two related sets of data

How to make a Double-Bar Graph?

Choose a scale and interval for the vertical axis. Draw a pair of bars for each countrys data. Use different colors to show males and females. Label the axes and give the graph a title. Make a key to show what each bar represents.

The table shows the highway speed limits on interstate roads .within three states
State
Florida

Urban
65mi/h

Rural
70 mi/h

Texas

70 mi/h

70 mi/h

Vermont

55mi/h

65 mi/h

Step 1

Choose a scale and interval for the vertical axis.

80

60

40

State
Florida Texas Vermont

Urban
65mi/h 70 mi/h 55mi/h

Rural
70 mi/h 70 mi/h 65 mi/h
0 20

Step 2

Draw a pair of bars for each states data. Use different colors to show urban and rural.
80

State
Florida Texas Vermont

Urban Rural
65mi/h 55mi/h 70 mi/h 65 mi/h
60

70 mi/h 70 mi/h
40

20

0 Florida Texas Vermont

Step 3 and 4
Speed Limit on Interstate Roads

80

Speed Limit (mi/h)

Label the axes and give the graph a title. Make a key to show what each bar represents

Urban Rural

60

40

20

0 Florida Texas Vermont

Histogram

Histogram is a bar graph that shows the frequency of data within equal intervals. There is no space in between the bars.

How to make a histogram?

The table below shows the number of hours students watch TV in one week Make a histogram of all the data. Number of hours of TV 1 2 II IIII 6 7 III IIII - IIII

3
4 5

IIII - IIII
IIII - I IIII - III

8
9

III
IIII

Make a frequency table of the data. Be sure to use equal intervals

Step 1
Number of Frequency hours of TV

1 2 3 4 5

Number of hours of TV II 6 III IIII 7 IIII - IIII IIII - IIII 8 III IIII - I 9 IIII IIII - III

1-3 4-6 7-9

15 17 16

Step 2

Choose an appropriate scale and interval for the vertical axis. The greatest value on the scale should be at least as great as the greatest frequency.

20
Number of Frequency hours of TV

16 12 8 4 0 1-3 4-6 7-9

1-3 4-6 7-9

15 17 16

Step 3

Number of students

Draw a bar for each interval. The height of the bar is the frequency for that interval. Bars must touch but not overlap. Label the axes and give the graph title

Hours of Television Watched

20 16 12 8 4 0 1-3 4-6 7-9

Hours

Number of hours of TV

Frequency

1-3 4-6 7-9

15 17 16

Hours of Television Watched

Number of students
20 16 12 8 4 0 1-3 4-6 7-9

Hours

Can you now make a bar graph, double bar Graph and a histogram?

The list below shows the results of a typing test in words per minute. Make a histogram of the data. 62, 55, 68, 47, 50, 41, 62, 39, 54, 70, 56, 70, 56, 47, 71, 55, 60, 42

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