11.03 Data displays

Lesson

Practice

Lesson

Are you ready?

Picture graphs and line plots are examples of data displays. Do you remember how to read line plots?

$Glen$ found a number of centipedes while working in his vegetable garden. He measured the lengths of the centipedes to the nearest fourth of an inch, and put the data into a line plot.

How long was the longest centipede that $Glen$ found?
What was the most common length of centipede that $Glen$ found?

Learn

This video explores different types of graphs, and things to think about when you want to know how to display data.

Vocabulary

A picture graph is also called a pictograph.

Apply

Question 1

Below is a graph showing the type of fruit each student in a class brought in for lunch yesterday.

What was the most common fruit?
Orange
A
Apple
B
Mandarin
C
How many more mandarins were brought than apricots?
Complete the table below using the information from the graph.

Fruit
Number

Banana $5$

Apple $\editable{}$

Mandarin $\editable{}$

Apricot $\editable{}$

Orange $\editable{}$

Fruit	Number
Banana	$5$
Apple	$\editable{}$
Mandarin	$\editable{}$
Apricot	$\editable{}$
Orange	$\editable{}$

Question 2

This pie graph and the table show the colors of fish in a tank.

Color of fish	Number of fish
Red	$4$4
Blue	$2$2
Yellow	$1$1
Orange	$1$1

Which graph best displays the color that is found on about half of the fish?
Table
A
Pie graph
B
Which two colors are found on a similar number of fish?
Blue and yellow
A
Orange and yellow
B

Remember!

Different graphs are useful to display different types of data.

Outcomes

4.14a

Collect, organize, and represent data in bar graphs and line graphs;

4.14b

Interpret data represented in bar graphs and line graphs