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Thank you We sneak shmoop be with it Yes We

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would like to display the data we collected in a

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survey that asked students what their favorite soft drink was

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out of the following choices coke pepsi sprite and seven

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up Which of the following is the best way to

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display this type of data And here the potential answers

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Klaus wavering All right so we've collected a bunch of

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data about soda preferences and we want to display it

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So we'll be collecting the number of students who prefer

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east soda So let's start by making up a few

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numbers Since we love diet coke Here it come up

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Let's do fifty four for coke forty nine for pepsi

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thirty nine for sprite and twenty four seven up Now

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let's determine the best plot to use well trust is

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a stem and leaf plot Stemming Leave Plots are good

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for displaying data for one category and many numbers But

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we have four different categories of soda and only one

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number per category So stem and leaf plot's really don't

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work for us Our next choice is accumulative frequency hissed

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a gram which is a graph that displays the running

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Total of the frequencies for a specific category They we

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wanted to display something like mass scores and how students

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perform for different ranges of math scores accumulative frequency history

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Graham would show these frequencies in a cumulative fashion which

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means that instead of showing the individual frequencies they'll just

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keep a running total of the frequencies so that the

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bars increases You go to the right notice that this

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works on lee for a specific category broken up into

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more buckets Well we can't do that with the soda

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data we collected We don't have that much numerical data

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per soda type So accumulative frequency history crammed It really

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doesn't work Alright Looking at choice senior a basic hissed

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a gram Well any history ram displays on ly numeric

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data there's no room for us to show the different

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types of soda that rules out See he is a

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bar graph A bar graph has different categories on one

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axis and a new miracle value about those categories on

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the other acts That's Exactly what we want we could

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put up soda types is the category then show the

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number of students who preferred the soda on the axis

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All right our last choice is e dot plot dot

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plots or similar to bar graphs and that they have

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categories on one axis and the number of dots above

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that category denotes the numerical data However counting dots would

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become very difficult if many students were interviewed So d 00:02:25.33 --> [endTime] a bar graph is the best choice

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