Histograms

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This is level 1: show the height of one bar in an almost-complete histogram with fixed class intervals. You can earn a trophy if you get at least 4 questions correct and you do this activity online.

1) This histogram shows the height of sunflowers in Julie's garden. Drag the first bar to show a frequency of 9 for the shortest group of sunflowers.

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Heights of sunflowers in centimetres

2) In an animal sanctuary the birds were weighed and the data is shown in the histogram below. There were 7 birds weighing between 450g and 500g. Adjust the height of the last bar of this histogram to show this information.

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Weights of birds in grams

3) This table and histogram below show the speed of cars passing Julie's house one morning. Drag the third bar to show the frequency of cars travelling between twenty and thirty miles per hour.

Speed (s) mph	0 < s ≤ 10	10 < s ≤ 20	20 < s ≤ 30	30 < s ≤ 40	40 < s ≤ 50	50 < s ≤ 60
Number of cars	2	5	8	7	3	11

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Speeds of cars in miles per hour

4) The Friday Allotment Coffee Club has exactly 39 members between the ages of twenty and a hundred. Drag the bar for the 70 to 80 age group to complete the histogram.

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Ages of Club Members

5) Jason keeps a record of how many kilometers he cycles each day. The histogram shows the data he has collected so far. He was surprised to realise that on a total of 23 days he cycled more than 21 kilometres. Adjust the height of the last bar of the histogram to show this information.

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Distance cycled in kilometres

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Reading Graphs and Charts - Answer real-life problems from different types of graphs and charts including piece-wise linear graphs.

Level 1 - Show the height of one bar in an almost-complete histogram with fixed class intervals

Level 2 - Read information from histograms with fixed class intervals

Level 3 - Complete a frequency table with information from a histogram with unequal class intervals

Level 4 - Complete a frequency table with information from a histogram showing frequency density

Level 5 - General questions about histograms with varying class widths

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Histograms

Histograms are similar to bar charts but there is one important difference. It is the area of the bars in a histogram that is proportional to the frequency rather than the height.

The first couple of levels of this exercise features histograms with equal class widths which means the heights of the bars can be conveniently used to find the frequency.

Levels 3 onwards contain histograms with unequal class widths so the vertical axis can be thought of as the frequency density.

Frequency = Frequency density × Class Width

Histograms can be used to represent both discrete and continuous data but they are typically used for displaying continuous data.

To draw a histogram, the data first needs to be assigned to a number of different groups (classes or bins). There are various theories concerning how many of these groups there should be but the normal is between five and twenty depending on the amount of data. A number of consecutive groups containing very little data may be merged into a single group.

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Histograms

Practise drawing and reading information from histograms displaying grouped data

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