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    The document contains three examples of bar graphs and pie charts with questions about interpreting the visualizations correctly. The first example shows a misleading bar graph with years grouped into overlapping intervals on the x-axis, preventing inferences about annual total sales. The second example identifies Tuesday as incorrectly graphed in a bar graph compared to the corresponding rainfall data in a table. The third example calculates that a pie chart shows approximately 43% of total ice cream cone sales occurred on Monday, based on dividing the raw data into percentages to form the pie slices.

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    Topic: Bar Graphs and Pie Charts

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    The document contains three examples of bar graphs and pie charts with questions about interpreting the visualizations correctly. The first example shows a misleading bar graph with years grouped into overlapping intervals on the x-axis, preventing inferences about annual total sales. The second example identifies Tuesday as incorrectly graphed in a bar graph compared to the corresponding rainfall data in a table. The third example calculates that a pie chart shows approximately 43% of total ice cream cone sales occurred on Monday, based on dividing the raw data into percentages to form the pie slices.

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    The document contains three examples of bar graphs and pie charts with questions about interpreting the visualizations correctly. The first example shows a misleading bar graph with years grouped into overlapping intervals on the x-axis, preventing inferences about annual total sales. The second example identifies Tuesday as incorrectly graphed in a bar graph compared to the corresponding rainfall data in a table. The third example calculates that a pie chart shows approximately 43% of total ice cream cone sales occurred on Monday, based on dividing the raw data into percentages to form the pie slices.

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    Topic: Bar Graphs and Pie Charts

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    Biplab Parida
    The document contains three examples of bar graphs and pie charts with questions about interpreting the visualizations correctly. The first example shows a misleading bar graph with years grouped into overlapping intervals on the x-axis, preventing inferences about annual total sales. The second example identifies Tuesday as incorrectly graphed in a bar graph compared to the corresponding rainfall data in a table. The third example calculates that a pie chart shows approximately 43% of total ice cream cone sales occurred on Monday, based on dividing the raw data into percentages to form the pie slices.

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    Topic: Bar graphs and pie charts

    Question: Which of the following statements are true about the bar chart
    for total sales?

    I. Each year from 2010 to 2017, total sales have increased.

    II. The data on the horizontal axis should have been organized from
    largest to smallest.

    III. The labels on the horizontal axis have resulted in a misleading bar
    chart.

    91,000

    90,000

    89,000

    88,000

    87,000

    86,000

    85,000

    84,000

    83,000
    2010 - 2013 2013 - 2015 2015 - 2017

    Answer choices:

    A I only

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    B II only

    C III only

    D I and III only

    Solution: C

    The different intervals for the years on the horizontal axis make it
    impossible to get an inference from the data. Some of the years even
    overlap. Say the company broke down their total sales by year instead,
    and the bar chart actually looked like this:

    50,000

    45,000

    40,000

    35,000

    30,000

    25,000

    20,000

    15,000

    10,000

    5,000

    0
    2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

    Grouping this chart together could result in the misleading bar chart you
    saw first, and lead consumers to think total sales were increasing, as
    opposed to decreasing year after year.

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    Topic: Bar graphs and pie charts

    Question: Which day of the week was graphed incorrectly based on the
    table?

    Day Rainfall (in cm)

    Monday 1

    Tuesday 3

    Wednesday 1

    Thursday 3

    Friday 6

    Saturday 6

    Sunday 5

    0
    Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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    Answer choices:

    A Monday

    B Tuesday

    C Wednesday

    D Thursday

    Solution: B

    The table says that it rained 3 cm on Tuesday. On the bar graph it says
    that it rained 2 cm on Tuesday. The data should be the same between the
    table and the bar graph, so Tuesday was graphed incorrectly.

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    Topic: Bar graphs and pie charts

    Question: In the pie chart for ice cream cone sales by day, to the nearest
    tenth of a percent, what percentage of total sales were made on Monday?

    25
    30

    15
    Monday
    Tuesday
    Wednesday

    Answer choices:

    A 30 %

    B 33 %

    C 43 %

    D 70 %

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    Solution: C

    To create a pie chart, the data is divided into percentages to break up the
    circle. The total ice cream sales for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are

    30 + 15 + 25 = 70

    and there were 30 ice cream cones sold on Monday. The percentage of ice
    cream cones sold on Monday is

    30
    ⋅ 100 = 43 %
    70

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