Question

Simon is producing a report on major rivers in North America. In the report he wants to add a table that displays the statistics (length, area, volume, average annual flow) of the top five largest rivers. Why would he use a table to display this information?

Answer 1

The data that is presented in the form of table is easily to analyze and understand instead of writing a paragraph or sentences.

Step-by-step explanation:

As Simon have the statistical data, that is related to the rivers in North America. This data includes length, area, volume and average flow of water. These all values are numeric values. He is collecting this data to compare and analyze the information gathered.

For analyzing and comparison purpose he should draw the table to that make him to easily understand and compare all the values. As the table contain columns and row, each columns is representing a new parameter such as length, area and volume. Each row contains the information about single parameter of each river such as river 1, river 2 and so on.