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¥ 4 Pictorial Representation of Data les 7.6 Af Statistics provide useful information about a population being studied ‘When data is properly presented in the form of tables or graphs, itis easy to obtain valuable information from the data OQ Exumpke 15, One type of graph that you are probably familiar with isthe pie graph, A pie graph isan effective way of illustrating how a whole unit is subdivided into component parts. ‘The size of each part is expressed as a percentage, Each parc is represented as a sector of the circle, and the size of the central angle of a sector is a proportionate part of the entire central angle of 360° Consider the following graph, which shows the movie preferences of group of young professionals. 1% __ 8% ay 1 Comedy Action @ Romance B Drama apy. |B Honor 14% Foreign Science Fiction, 14% 18% ‘The most preferred movie genre is comedy, while the least preferred is science fiction and foreign movies. In this section, you will learn about two other types of graphs, as wel as another pictorial tool for representing numerical data, Line Graphs A line graph is « graph consisting of segments joined end to end. It is useful for showing changes in che values of a variable over time. Line graphs are effective visual means of showing trends, such as growth or decline in the values of a particular quantity that changes continuously over a period of time. ‘To construct a line graph, examine the range of scores to create a scale along the vertical grid for the frequency of scores. Along the horizontal grid, label che classes, cafegories or intervals into which the data elements have been subdivided. Plot a point for each pair of values from the data 366 367 Connect the set. Points with line segme * . cacti atthe ine graph is abou and provide a title to describ QL 16. pei eior gph shows he umber of pens who visived a ¥ 80 70 60 50 40 30, 20 10 Number of patients THAN] TAS OND* ‘Months of the Year Soure: hapfiyww.ere sh or “The vertical scale shows the number of patients who visited the clinic while the horizontal scale shows the months of the year. Some of the information that can be readily obtained from this graph are the following: a. The peak number of patients occurred in May, when more than. 60 patients were processed. The least number of patients came to the clinic in November The sharpest decrease from the previous month in the number of patients occurred in the month of October.

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