STUDY.COM BUS 212-CHAPTER 2
What is the interval of this line graph?
10
Which day was the warmest?
Friday
One trick to finding out if information is categorical or quantitative is to analyze the answer to the question. Which of the following is TRUE:
If the answer to the question is numerical, then the information is quantitative. If the answer to the question is a characteristic, preference, etc., then the information is categorical.
Under which ribbon menu or tab will you find the chart type commands?
Insert
KY Company sells pencils. The graph below shows the company's monthly profits during 2015. Which two months were profits the lowest?
March and June
Which day was the coldest?
Monday
A line graph is best used for which of the following data?
Sales over time
You just took a survey asking people about their favorite class in school. After getting all the answers, you found that 10 people love English, 2 people love math, 3 people love history, and 12 love science. Order these subjects from most liked to least.
Science, English, History, Math
What is the first step in creating a chart?
Select the data for the chart
In this graph, which material is the cheapest?
Thread
What type of data is best suited to a composite bar graph?
sales data from multiple locations
What type of data is best suited for a range bar graph?
temperature ranges or price ranges
What was the temperature on Wednesday?
40 degrees
What is the distinguishing mark of a line graph?
A line connecting dots.
Katie is collecting data about the number of people that are interested in different dance styles. After passing out a survey, she has gathered the following information: Style / Number of people interested in this style Ballet / 20 Jazz /12 Hip Hop / 8 Lyrical / 26 Tap / 10 What type of data did Katie collect?
Categorical
Samantha is gathering information about how many calories the athletes on her team consume during game week. Which answer correctly indicates how the data should be analyzed for both categorical and quantitative research?
Categorical Data: 1,000-1,200 cal; 1,201-1,400 cal; 1,401-1,600 cal, etc. Quantitative Data: All individual caloric consumption amounts are collected.
What is data that is collected in groups or topics, where the number of events in each group is counted numerically?
Categorical data
You just took a survey asking people about their favorite class in school. After getting all the answers, you found that 10 people love English, 2 people love math, 3 people love history, and 12 love science. Please put this information in table form.
Class Result English 10 Math 2 History 3 Science 12
There are several different types of charts in Excel. Which two are the most frequently used?
Column and bar
Which of the following should a business use when it wants to compare several products with each other?
Column chart
What type of bar graph is shown below?
Grouped Bar Graph
Sam wants to show how much of his sales come from families and college students when compared to all his sales. Which of the following charts/graphs should he use?
Pie chart
What is one difference between a histogram and a bar graph?
The histogram shows a range of numbers
Tom is the owner of an ice cream cart and has graphed his sales for the past week based on the outside temperature. Identify the temperature where Tom will make a sales of more than $300.
75
You just took a survey asking people about their favorite class in school. After getting all the answers, you found that 10 people love English, 2 people love math, 3 people love history, and 12 love science. What are the percentages for each class?
English 37% Math 7% History 11% Science 45%
Which of the following is an example of a piece of categorical data?
Ethnicity
David wants to collect information about his friends and how many siblings they each have. David has eight friends. How should he collect this data? Why?
Quantitatively: Since David isn't dealing with a large amount of information, he can simply ask each friend and analyze the data quantitatively.
The bar chart shows the time taken for seven students to cover 75 meters. _____ was the fastest and _____ was the slowest.
Sarah; Fanny
After labeling the horizontal and vertical axes for my bar chart, what is the next step in creating a bar chart?
Evenly distribute the numerical values along the appropriate axis.
When was the biggest change in temperature?
Saturday
Ten students participated in a chemistry test and their scores are depicted on the bar chart below. How many students received a 100 percent score on the test?
3
A company wants to show how fast its cars can accelerate when compared with the competition. Which chart should it use to convey this information?
Bar chart
You just took a survey asking people about their favorite class in school. After getting all the answers, you found that 10 people love English, 2 people love math, 3 people love history, and 12 love science. What is the percentage of people that love English?
37%
Which answer best describes a chart?
A chart is most commonly used to display comparisons.
Which answer best describes a graph?
A graph is normally used to display trends over time.
