Question

Aubrey recorded the low temperature in her home town each day for two weeks. Her results, in degrees Fahrenheit, are:

41, 46, 43, 53, 55, 44, 51, 39, 42, 38, 50, 52, 47, 45.

Which type of graph would best display whether there were more low temperatures in the 30’s, 40’s, or 50’s?
bar graph
line plot
line graph
stem and leaf plot

Answer 1

bar graph

A bar graph (or frequency histogram) best shows counts in categories (30s, 40s, 50s) so you can easily compare which range has more low temperatures.