A newspaper article claimed that the afternoon hours were the worst in terms of

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A newspaper article claimed that the afternoon hours were the worst in terms of robberies and provided the graph to the right in support of this claim. Explain how this graph is misleading. Choose the correct answer below. Not all the time intervals are the same size. Redistributing the time interval so they are all the same size may lead to a different shape. The vertical axis has no units. This can mislead readers into thinking that are the percentage are actually counts. The Vertical axis stops at 25%. It should go all the way up to 100% to accurately show percentage data. All of the bars are the same color. So they lead to blend visually with each other. This makes the graph hard to read.

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Ans (a) Not all of the time intervals are the same size resulting the time interval so they are all the same size may lead to a different shape as in the graph on X-axis Ist one is 6-9 and the remaining are 9-1pm, 1pm-6pm, 6-9pm,9-12,12-3am,3-6am so observing these intervals the period 1-6pm has highest bar but here we are taking 6 hours period and others 3 hous like that .

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