Year 7

Data classification and

visualisation
• Types of data
• Organising and displaying data
• Dot Plot
• Stem and leaf plot
• Line graph
• Column graph
• Conversion graph
• Answers

Names: _________________

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 Types of data

1) Match each word with its correct meaning:

a) Discrete i. Placed in categories or classes

b) Categorical ii. Counted in exact values

c) Continuous iii. Data in the form of numbers

d) Numerical iv. Measured in decimal numbers.

2) Classify the following as categorical or numerical.

a) The eye colour of each student in your class.
b) The weight of each student when they were born.
c) The brands of airplanes landing at Sydney’s international airport.
d) The temperature of each classroom.
e) The number of students in each classroom during period 1 on Tuesday.

3) Classifying the following variables as categorical, continuous numerical or discrete numerical data.
a) The number of cars per household.
b) The weights of packages sent by Australia Post on the 20th of December.
c) The highest temperature of the ocean each day.
d) The favourite brand of chocolate of the teachers at your school.
e) The colours of the cars in the school car park.
f) The brands of cars in the school car park.
g) The number of letters in different words on a page.
h) The number of advertisements in a time period over each of the free-to-air channels.
i) The length of time spent doing this exercise.
j) The arrival times of planes at JFK airport.
k) The daily pollution levels on a particaular highway.
l) The number of SMS messages sent by an individual yesterday.
m) The times for the 100m freestyle event at the world championships over the past 10 years.
n) The number of Blue-ray discs someone owns.
o) The brands of cereals available at the supermarket.
p) Marks awarded on a maths test

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 Organising and displaying data
1) Picture graphs are used to show data about things that can be counted.
This picture graph shows the number of cars passing a school at different times during a day.

a) How many cars does each

represent?

b) What does represent? Can you

see a disadvantage with this symbol?

c) What is the busiest time of day for

traffic?
d) What is the quietest time?
e) List each time period and the number of
cars at that time.

f) Suggest possible reasons for the flow of traffic at:

i. 8:00 – 10:00 am ii. 6:00 – 8:00 am iii. 2:00 – 4:00 pm

2) Column graphs are mostly used for data that are in categories.
This column graph shows the populations of the eight Australian capital cities in 2010.
a) Which city has the biggest population?

b) Which city has the smallest population?

c) What does one interval on the vertical axis

(the ‘Population” axis) represent?

d) What is the population of Brisbane?

e) Which city has a population of 1.3 million?
f) How many times Hobart’s population is
Melbourne’s population?

3) Sometimes a column graph is presented sideways. The following graph shows the percentage of the
population that owned various consumer items in 2008.
a) What percentage of the population owned:
i. a television set?
ii. a mobile phone?
iii. a DVD player?
b) What item was owned by 42% of the population?

c) Did more people own mobile phones or

computers?
d) What was the percentage difference between
people owning a car and people owning a computer?

e) How might this column graph be different if it described the ownership of consumer items this year?

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4) This clustered column graph or side-by-side column graph compares the number of people living in Australian
households in 1986, 1996 and 2006.
a) What scale is used on the vertical axis?
b) What percentage of households were made up of
more than two persons in 1996?

c) In which year were 30% of households made up

of two people?
d) Which category was:
i. Most common?
ii. least common?
e) Which category had the greatest difference between 1996 and 2006?

f) “there was a higher percentage of one-person households in 1996 than in 1986.” True or false?

5) Line graphs are usually drawn to show data measured

over time. This line graph shows Kate’s height over her
first 15 years. At birth she is 48 cm tall, and at age 10
she is about 140 cm tall. Use the graph to answer the
following questions.
a) What was Kate’s height:
i. On her first birthday?
ii. At age 7?
b) At what age did Kate reach:
i. 1 metre?
ii. 150 cm?
c) Between which two birthdays did Kate grow the
most? Give a possible reason.

d) Between which two birthdays did Kate grow the least? Give a possible reason.

e) How long did it take Kate to double her height from birth?’
f) How long did it take her to triple her height from birth? Compare this to your answer for the previous
question. Why is there a difference?

g) What do you think the graph will look like:

i. After 15 years? ii. after 20 years?

h) How might a graph of a boy’s height differ from this one?

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 Dot plot
1)
a) At the following information shows the number of goals that Daniel kicked in the soccer games he played
last year. Draw a dot plot to represent this data.
4 5 1 2 3 0 3 8 4 6 5
4 1 1 4 4 2 5 3 1 1 0

b) Are there any outliers in this data? If so, what are they?
c) Where is the data clustered?
d) How many games did Daniel play?

2) This dot plot shows the number of students in each class at Westvale Primary School.
a) How many students are in the smallest class?
b) How many classes have more than 20 students in them?
c) Class sizes range from _______ to ________.
d) What is the most common number of students in a class?
e) Are they any outliers in this data?

f) How many classes are there are Westvale Primary School?

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 Line Graphs
Draw a line graph for the following data which shows the number of people absent from work in a company over a
week.

Remember, just like column graphs

• Use the top row for the horizontal axis.

• Use the bottom row for the vertical axis.
• What is a suitable scale for the vertical axis?
• What is the label for each axis?
• What is the graph title?

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3) Draw a line graph for the following data which shows the number of eggs collected from a farm over a 10-day
period.

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5) Draw a line graph for the following data which shows the number of televisions sold by a shop over a 12-
month period.

6) Oliver weighed his pet dog on the first day every month. He obtained the following results.

a) Draw a line graph showing this information.

b) Describe any trends or patterns that you see.

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Column Graphs

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3) Here are the stopping distances (in m) for a car travelling at different speeds in (km/h). Display the data in a
column graph.

4) This table shows the results of an 8-word spelling test. Display the data in a column graph.

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7) This table shows the annual rainfall for the town of Hillview. Display the data in a column graph.

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Conversion graph

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Answers

Types of Data

1a) ii b) I c) iv d) iii

2a) C b) N c) C d) N e) N

3a)DN b) CN c) CN d) C e) C f) C g) DN h) DN i) CN j) CN k) CN or DN l) DN

m) CN n) DN o) C p)DN

Organising and displaying data

1a) 10 b) 5 cars. It is difficult to represent the whole range of values accurately. c) 8am - 10am

d) 6am – 8am e) 5 cars 6am – 8am, 40 cars 8am- 10am, 10 cars 10am – 12pm, 20 cars 12pm – 2pm, 35 cars 2pm –
4pm, 15 cars 4pm – 6pm fi) dropping children at school, going to work fii) Not many people
around yet, a few going to work fiii) parents picking up children

2a) Sydney b) Darwin c) 200 000 people d) 2.1 million or 2 100 000 people e) Adelaide

f) 20 times

3ai) 99% aii) 88% aiii) 88% b) Dishwasher c) Mobile phones d) About 15%

4a) 1 unit = 10% b) 45% c) 2006 di) 3 and 4 dii) 5 and over e) 3 and 4 f) true

5ai) 70 cm aii) 120 cm bi) 4 bii) 11 c) 0 and 1, babies grow quickly d) 6 and 7, children’s growth slows
down e) 3 years f) 10 years, growth slows down gi) fairly flat gii) possibly horizontal

4a) 4 b) 24 c) 8 d) 7 e) 2 f) 8 g) Yes, between 2 and 5

12a) 7 b) 7 c) 3M, 4 d) 3M, because best student got 10

13a) 1500 b) 104 000 c) increase d) Approximately 590 000 passengers

Dot plot

2a) 18 b) 16 c) 18, 26 d) 25 e) No f) 22

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Lines graphs

7a) 15m b) 0.6 sec and 3.4 sec c) 20m d) 2 sec e) 1.4 sec

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Column graphs

Conversion graph

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