Question

1. For which of these would you use a histogram to show the data?
(a) The number of letters for different areas in a postman's bag.
(b) The height of competitors in an athletics meet.
(c) The number of cassettes produced by 5 companies.
() The number of passengers boarding trains from 7:00 a.m. to 7:
station.
Give reasons for each.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) We can't use histogram in this case because we cannot define the class intervals for this data.

(b) We can use histogram here, because it will be easy to divide the data in class intervals.

(c) We do not have approximate data we wont use a histogram. We do not know about the number of cassettes produced by companies.

(d) We can use histogram in this case on we can divide the given data into class intervals