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Chapter 1: Representing Data



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Your class is ordering a cake for a celebration and wants to know how many people prefer chocolate or vanilla. One student volunteers to use a graph to organize and compare the data. The class prefers chocolate but the graph seems to show that most people prefer vanilla. How could that student have misrepresented the data to get the vanilla cake the student wanted? Take a tour around this site to find out.













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