Question

Students were asked to vote for the leisure activity they liked best. The data are shown in the table.

A 2-column table with 5 rows. Column 1 is labeled Number of Votes with entries 18, 22, 34, 28, 8. Column 2 is labeled Leisure Activity with entries Reading, Watching movies, Playing video games, playing sports, Other.

Which statements are true? Check all that apply.
A total of 34 students voted.
The longest bar on a bar graph would be for the “Playing video games” category.
The bars for “Watching movies” and “Playing sports” would be the same length.
It would be time-consuming to show the data in a line plot because the data values are large.
A line graph could be used to effectively represent the data.
1 2 3 4 5

Answer 1

Only statement 2 is true.

- 1 is false: total votes = 18+22+34+28+8 = 110, not 34.
- 2 is true: 34 is the largest count, so "Playing video games" has the longest bar.
- 3 is false: 22 (Watching movies) ≠ 28 (Playing sports).
- 4 is false: the values are not large and plotting them isn't time-consuming.
- 5 is false: a line graph is not an effective choice for categorical data like activities; a bar graph is appropriate.