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Thirty students named their favourite fruit: mango 12, banana 7, apple 6 and grapes 5.
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Thirty students named their favourite fruit: mango 12, banana 7, apple 6 and grapes 5.
- Draw a bar chart, with the bars in order from the tallest.
- Give it a title and a label for the vertical axis.
- Check the total.
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
A bar chart has one bar for each category, with gaps. A pie chart shows shares of a whole: the angle of a slice is .
The worked solution
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Work it out on paper first. It is fine to get stuck or make a mistake: that is how we learn. When you are ready, go through the solution one step at a time, and check each step against your own.
Step 1. The bars. Mango , banana , apple , grapes , in that order. Each bar starts at , and there is a gap between bars.
Step 2. Labels. Title: "Favourite fruit of 30 students". Vertical axis: "number of students".
Step 3. Check. students.
Answer: four separate bars from mango down to grapes, with a title and a labelled axis.
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