Analyzing Bar Graphs and creating bar graphs Statistics

Analyzing Bar Graphs and creating bar graphs Statistics and Probability 6. SP. 4

Do Now… Describe the data: center, spread and shape

Bar Graphs �A visual representation to show popularity of a category or how many chose a specific selection. Good for making comparisons.

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Measuring cats (HUSUPU) A group of students has been investigating information about their pets. They collected data about the length of cat’s tail and represented their findings in the bar graph

Creating Bar Graphs Create a bar graph to represent the following data Students at a middle school surveyed their school parking lot to find the number of cars in certain colors. Their results are shown in the table below. Red - 12 Black - 18 White - 13 Green - 7 Make a bar graph to represent the data.

Creating bar graphs Red - 12 Black - 18 White - 13 Green - 7 1. Draw an x and y axis 2. Find the range of your data 3. Frequency and scale go on the y axis (equal intervals) 4. Category goes on the x axis 5. Draw bars to match each frequency 6. Label you axis and

Creating bar graphs Survey your classmates to find out what their favorite subject is in school. Use this data to create a bar graph and then make an observation about the graph.

Conclusion 1. Find the mean, median, mode and range of the rainfall amounts. 2. Which months had rainfall lower than 2 inches? 3. Which month had the lowest amount of rain fall?