Working scientifically: Graphs

Question 1

What is continous data?

Answer 1

Continous: Numbers can take any value

Question 2

What is categoric data?

Answer 2

Categoric: Variable has values that are words not numbers.

Question 3

What is discrete data?

Answer 3

Discrete: Variable can only have whole number values.

Question 4

When do you draw a line graph?

Answer 4

If independent and dependent variable are continous.

Question 5

When do you draw a bar chart?

Answer 5

If independent variable is categoric

Question 6

When don’t you draw a line of best fit?

Answer 6

If there is no link between variable, don’t draw a line of best fit.

Question 7

When do you use pie charts?

Answer 7

Represent categoric data, often in form of percentages.