HISTOGRAM. It is a graph that shows frequencies of data within equal intervals.

The main difference

between a normal bar graph and a histogram is that a bar graph shows you the frequency of each element in a
set of data, while a histogram shows you the frequencies of a range of data. Unlike the bars on a bar graph, the
bars on the histogram are next to each other without a gap, unless there is an interval that has a frequency of
zero.
To make a histogram: (1) Draw and label the horizontal axis and the vertical axis. The horizontal axis
shows the intervals; the vertical axis shows the frequencies. (2) Use the least and greatest values in the data
to choose a sensible scale for the frequencies. Use intervals of the same size
throughout the scale. (3) Label equal spaces along the horizontal axis. (4) Data Frequency
Draw bars without any gaps in between to show the frequency of each Range
interval. Do not omit any interval, even if an interval has a frequency of 0. 1 – 10 1
(5) Write a title for the graph. 11 – 20 4
Example 4: Take the following scores of 16 students in a 50-item test:
3,11,12,12,19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, 36, 37,45, 49.
21 – 30 6
Solution: 31 – 40 3
41 - 50 2
Scores of Students in 50-item Test First, we group
the data into convenient
7
6 ranges, called bins. In this
5 example we are going to
Frequency

4 group the data in bins with

3 a width of 10 each.
2 Changing the size of the
1
bin will change the
0
1 – 10 11 – 20 21 – 30 31 – 40 41 - 50 appearance of the graph.
Scores Next, we draw a frequency
table with the data range
divided in the different
bins. Then we tally the data, placing it in the correct bin.

Finally, we can draw the histogram by placing the bins on the horizontal axes and the frequency on
the vertical axes.