Tamar is crating a veritcal bar graph to show how far each of her friends loves from school the data are in the table shown.

Question

Friend 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Distance 7 8 9 9.5 6.5 16 7 7.5 8 10
from school
(miles)
What numbers are appropriate for Tamar to use to label the vertical axis to show all the data
a.0 to 20
b. 1 to 10
c. 7 to 10
d. 7 to 16
i need a proportion

Answer 1

Since you want all the values to show on he vertical axis (ordinate), a.

b and c would not cover all values, and d would misrepresent the distance, with the lowest values seemingly being only one unit.