Picture Graphs, Bar Graphs, and Histograms
This lecture series describes other ways to represent data on a graph: pictographs and bar graphs. A histogram is a type of bar graph. Watch the videos and complete the interactive exercises.
Practice
Create bar graphs - Questions
1. The table below shows the type of pets for the students in the third grade at Beatty Elementary school.
Which graph below shows the most reasonable scale for the information in the table?
Choose 1 answer:
2. Abigail loves sports! This weekend she spent time playing 5 sports.
Create a bar graph to show how much time Abigail spent playing each sport.
3. Jack created a chart and a bar graph to show how many of each type of nut were in his can of mixed nuts.
Label each bar on the bar graph.
4. The table below shows number of runs scored by different baseball teams scored over the weekend.
Which graph below shows the most reasonable scale for the information in the table?
Choose 1 answer:
5. The elementary school principal asked teachers to report the number of students absent in each grade during the past week.
Create a bar graph to show how many students were absent in each grade.
6. Carol created a chart and a bar graph to show how many of each type of vehicle were in her supermarket parking lot.
Label each bar on the bar graph.
7. The table below shows the number of nights Steve saw different planets with his telescope.
Which graph below shows the most reasonable scale for the information in the table?