Interpreting graphs

Objective: To be able to read and plot graphs of real-life problems

You should already know:

How to find the equation of a straight line,

How to draw a straight line from an equation,

What the intercept means, What gradient means,

How to read information from graphs.

What does it show?

Firstly, look at the axis to see what the graph represents.

The Bus Stop Queue

ALWAYS READ THE LABELS ON THE AXIS!

Drawing graphs of real-life situations

In your exams you may be asked to complete, or draw, graphs to represent given situations.

Example 1.
You are at home getting ready to go out to your stamp collecting club.

You leave your house and jog the 1000m to the club. You arrive 5 minutes later.
You exchange stamps and chat for 1 hour, then leave for home. It takes you 10 minutes.

Plot a distance time-graph to represent your journey to and from the club.

Drawing graphs of real-life problems 1. Choose a suitable scale for each axis. 2. at Decide how many points to plot. You are home getting ready to go out to your stamp collecting club. You are at home getting ready to go out to your stamp collecting club. You leave your house and jog the 1000m to the club. You arrive 5 minutes later. 3. your Draw the withtosuitable accuracy You leave house and graph jog the 1000m the club. You arrive 5 minutes later. You exchange stamps and chat for 1 hour, then leave for home. It takes you 10 minutes. You exchange stamps and chat for 1 hour, then leave for home. It takes you 10 minutes. 4. Provide a title and label the axis
The journey to and from my stamp collecting club

1000 Distance 800 from home (m) 600 400 200 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Time (minutes)

The journey to my stamp collecting club

1000 800 Distance from 600 home (m) 400 200

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

Time (minutes)

1.

Choose a suitable scale for each axis.

2. Decide how many points to plot. 4. Provide a title and label the axis

3. Draw the graph with suitable accuracy

You leave your house to visit a friend. On the way, you stop at the local shop for 5 minutes to buy some sweets. You arrive at your friends house 1.5km, and 15 minutes, after you left home. You stay with your friend for 2 hours before leaving. It takes you 20 minutes to get home.

Which graph?

Which graph?

Which graph?

Sketching line graphs

Sketch a line graph to show the depth of water against time when water runs steadily from a tap into these jars.

Depth of water

Time

Challenge
Write a short situation (like the stamp-club example) and give it to your partner to create an accurate line graph of.

Draw a simple container and ask your partner to sketch a line graph to show how the depth of water would change with time if filled by a steadily flowing tap.

OGT Graph
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Construct 2 Graphs

Make one a scatterplot and one a bar graph