Line+Plot

Line Plot: Why we chose to create a line plot: In our data, there is not a very wide range of numbers to therefore create a histogram. The data would not be displayed well because we wouldn't know how many countries received exactly what amount; only a certain range that they won in between Since there wasn't a wide range we could show the data better though a line plot because the numbers were very close together and we could better show the data. it the numbers were farther apart we would of used a histogram. We were not trying to compare part to whole, so we did not use a circle graph. Circle graphs are good for comparing how many each country won out of the total amount of medals won. We didn't want to compare each countries amount but see how many countries won the similar amount of 2006 Olympic Gold Medals. The line plot best depicted our data because the same number reappeared many times as a frequency. You can compare to others how many each country won. None of the countries won 4 medals. Four countries won 1 gold medal which is the mode of the data. We chose a line plot for two reasons. One, the numbers are not widespread so the idea for a graph with any kind of intervals was out of the question. The range was very small, a range of 11. Also, it was the best option because it showed the irregular frequency in the most detailed way. There were many repeats in numbers, so it showed just how many countries got how many Gold Medals in 2006.