Could a histogram be used to..?

Question

show the number cats that have different colors in a neighborhood?

and if it could how and if it can't why couldn't it?

Answer 1

this could be a trick question.

a histogram is kind of like a graph... you count things, put them in groups, and then each upright bar represents a group.

for example, Senators in the US, by gender:

        84

       ------

       ------

       ------

       ------     16

      -------  -------

      -------  -------

     male  female

So if you counted the cats in your neighborhood, and found 3 black and 2 orange

       3    

    ____    2

    ____   ___

    ____   ___

   black   orange.

but... here's the tricky part... in a histogram each thing you count should only go in one group.    So if you have a cat that is black+white, you are not suppoesd to score him once in the black column, and once in the white column.  You'd either have to decide that he's mostly black, so count him in the black column,  or you'd have to include a separate column called black+white  (that could be a whole lot of columns if you had one for every color combination).

So that's a tricky question... it could be used, but it might not be very meaningful.  I would probably go with "no".

                

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

Bit of an awkward question, but, yes, I do suppose you can represent that data. At the x axis of the histogram just name the color of cat and to the y axis just number the amount of cats in the neighborhood.  

Answer 4

Well, a histogram is a bar graph, basically.  And you could use Excel or MS Works to do one.

Generally a histogram expresses ranges, as in:



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A B C D

A: Y/A Askers, in Genius range 100-150 iq (40%)

B: Y/A Askers, in Normal Range 70-99 iq (30%)

C: Y/A Askers, Below Normal Range (20%)

D: Y/A Askers, iq Unknown (10%)

So you could count cats the same way:

A - Black Cats, 5

B - White Cats, 3

C - Grey Cats, 2

D - Borwn Cats, 4

E - Calico Cats, 3

F - Other Cats,1

A *****

B ***

C **

D ****

E ***

F *

As you can see the graph can be vertical (iq), or horizontal (cats).

But generally, Histograms are vertical.

I hope this helped.