Bar charts

Drawing a bar chart

In a bar chart, the height of the bar shows the frequency of the result.

As the height of bar represents frequency, the vertical axis would be labelled 'Frequency'. The labelling of the horizontal axis depends on what is being represented by the bar chart. Take care to ensure an appropriate scale, to number the axes uniformly, and give the appropriate label on the axes. Finally remember to give the graph a suitable title.

Question

Leon conducts a survey to find the number of people in each of the cars arriving at the school gate between and . His results are shown in the bar chart below:

a) How many cars contained person?

b) How many cars contained more than people?

c) Why there are only a small number of cars containing person?

d) How many cars arrived at the school gate between and ?

Reveal answer

a) cars contained person

b) cars contained more than people

c) Most cars would be driven by parents bringing their children to school - only a few would contain one person (such as a teacher or a sixth former).

d) cars ( ).