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Line Graph

The document discusses line graphs and their properties. Line graphs connect points to show how data changes over time and are useful for displaying multiple relationships in the same picture. When creating line graphs with multiple lines, different line styles, colors and plotting symbols should be used to distinguish the lines. Line graphs are best for showing patterns in data over time and enabling predictions about results. They work well when both axes display ordered variables.

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Line Graph

The document discusses line graphs and their properties. Line graphs connect points to show how data changes over time and are useful for displaying multiple relationships in the same picture. When creating line graphs with multiple lines, different line styles, colors and plotting symbols should be used to distinguish the lines. Line graphs are best for showing patterns in data over time and enabling predictions about results. They work well when both axes display ordered variables.

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A line graph is a graph that connects points to show how data changes over time.

Line graphs are most often used to display time series data. Line graphs are appropriate only when both the X- and Y-axes display ordered (rather than qualitative) variables.

Line graphs are useful to display more than one relationship in the same picture. While there is no general rule, graphs with more than four or five lines tend to become confusing unless the lines are well separated.

In a graph with more than one line, different line styles (e.g. solid line, dashed line etc.), colours and/or plotting symbols (e.g. asterisks, circles etc.) should be used to distinguish the lines. In any set of line graphs, plotting symbols and line styles should be used consistently. Also, consider using the same scale on each graph, when comparisons are to be made across graphs.

1.It is easy to read. 2. A broken scale can be used when the data starts at a large number. 3. They show specific values of data, so if you are given one variable the other can easily be determined. 4. They show patterns in data clearly, meaning that they visibly show how one variable is affected by the other as it increases or decreases. 5. They enable the viewer to make predictions about the results of data

1.It can only be used to show data over time. 2. You can change the way the data of a line graph appears, by not using consistent scales on the axis.

Figure 1. The independent variable is the year. It changes no matter what happens to tornadoes. The dependent variable is the total number of tornadoes. It changes depending on the year.

The graph shows that there is an increase number of tornadoes over the period of years.

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