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Misleading diagrams
E Math · Secondary 3 · Hard · Misleading diagrams
A survey shows the number of hours 30 students spend on homework each week. A bar graph is drawn, but the vertical axis starts at 5 hours instead of 0 hours.
Which statement best explains why this bar graph may be misleading?
Which statement best explains why this bar graph may be misleading?
- It hides some of the data values so the graph looks simpler.
- It makes the bars look closer together, so differences are harder to see.
- It makes small differences in hours look much larger than they really are.
- It changes the order of the categories on the horizontal axis.
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