Question

Which topic could be shown in a line graph?

favorite food

weight of 5th grade students

amount of rainfall each week

age of people at a concert

Answer 1

Alright, so a line graph is used to show how two different things relate. For example, you could make a line graph of how much money you make every allowance:

Answer 2

It wouldn't make much sense to have a line graph were you aren't comparing two different things that change

Answer 3

So of those 4 options, what has multiple variables changing?

Answer 4

so it would be amount of rainfall each week?

Answer 5

Yes. That's right. Because you're comparing

A) the amount of rainfall

to

B) the time

Answer 6

With the other 3 options, only 1 thing is changing (age, favorite food, weight, etc). Not over time of with respect to some other variable

Answer 7

Do you want to do one more quick example to make sure you got it?

Answer 8

no thanks I understand it thanks

Answer 9

Alright then.