Question

50 11th graders were asked to choose which of 6 options the school’s color should be. The table below shows the number of students who chose each color. Use the data to answer the questions.

Color Frequency
Red 10
Blue 7
Orange 5
Black 6
Silver 8
Gold 14

1. Jake wants to make a relative frequency bar graph from these data, with the vertical axis marked off in percentages, from 0 up to 30 percent. What should be the height of the bar for blue?

2. Kate wants to make a relative frequency bar graph from these data, with the vertical axis marked off in percentages, from 0 up to 30 percent. What should be the height of the bar for red?

Answer 1

The height of the blue bar should be 14%.
The height of the red bar should be 20%.