Line graph worksheet for Statistics
In Statistics a line graph is a time series: the questions read single points, measure the change between two times, find the biggest jump from one period to the next, find the mean of all the values, and plot a table as a line graph. Write the points down as a list before computing anything.
Also taught in Pre-Algebra, at its own level and with its own examples.
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How to do these
Sales: Jan Feb Mar Apr May . What was the greatest increase from one month to the next?
- Month-to-month changes: 4, 7, -2 and 6.
- The largest is 7, from February to March.
The answer is .
Where students go wrong
Pointing to the highest point as the greatest increase. The greatest increase is the biggest rise between neighboring points, and it can happen anywhere on the graph, not only where the line is highest.
Also called line graph, line graphs, reading line graphs or interpreting line graphs.
What you can put on this worksheet
- Read one point
- How tall was the plant, in centimeters, in week 2? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The change between two points
- By how many centimeters did the plant's height increase from week 4 to week 5? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The greatest increase
- What was the greatest increase from one week to the next? — plant height: a line graph of centimeters from wk 1 to wk 5 →
- The mean of the values
- What was the mean number of visitors per day? — library visitors: a line graph of visitors from mon to fri →
- Percent change
- By what percent did the number of visitors decrease from Thursday to Friday? — library visitors: a line graph of visitors from mon to fri →
- Median, range and mode
- Find the range of the data in the graph. — visitors: a line graph of visitors from jan to jun →
- Make a line graph from a table
- Make a line graph of the cups of lemonade a stand sold each day.
— lemonade sales: a line graph of cups sold from day 1 to day 5 →