Sunday, September 20, 2009

Statistics

Statistics are very important in the world. They show how data relates to eachother. When you compare things to eachother you get a much better perspective of what the things are, rather than just stating a fact. When you are making a scatter plot, you compare all of the points. You also get to see any trends that might form so you will be able to guess what the next statistic will be.

For example, if you were clueless about american currency and someone asked you if you would like 10 pennies, 6 nickels, 7 dimes, 3 quaters, what would you chose? You would have to compare them to eachother and find out which one has the greatest value, which is shown in the graph above. When all of the values are compared to one another you can see that 3 quaters is the greatest value.
(I have no idea why the graph is in the middle of the paragraph. I couldn't figure out how to move it.)

No comments:

Post a Comment