The senior counselor is making a histogram of the yearly cost of tuition of 20 colleges. Tuition ranges from $5,000 to $51,000 a year. What would be best to count by, on the tuition axis? A) 1,000s B) 5,000s C) 10,000s D) 15,000s
It would be better to count by 5,000s on the tuition axis. This is because the range has a minimum of 5,000 and maximum of 51,000 which can be divided by 5. Changes in amount between each multiple of 5,000 can easily be understood.
In the histogram, the x-axis will be the names of the school and the y-axis will be its corresponding tuition for the year.
