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
Read bar graphs (2-step problems) - Questions
1. Chelsea asked 500 people at her school their favorite color and graphed the results of her survey. Some colors are not on Chelsea's graph.
How many people chose colors other than those on Chelsea's graph?
_______ people
2. Yasmin took a survey of her classmates to determine the frequencies of different eye colors.
Yasmin surveyed a total of _____ classmates.
3. The graph shows the number of students who play various instruments.
How many fewer students in the marching band play flute than drums and trombone combined?
_______ fewer students
4. The graph shows the number of hurricanes that occurred over four months.
Fill in the blank.
The number of hurricanes in September is ______ (greater than, fewer than, or equal to) the number of hurricanes in June, July, and August combined.