Math topic中文

Misinterpretation

explaining why a given statistical diagram leads to misinterpretation of data

Practice questions

  1. 1Explain how the line graph above may be misleading. Answer ...
  2. 2Below is a graph from the Annual Climate Singapore 2023, which shows the top 10 warmest years in Singapore since 1929. S…
  3. 3A website shows a poster of the poaching statistics of African elephants. Explain how the poster above may be misleading…
  4. 4The graph shows the number of cyclists in an annual cycling marathon for the years 2017 to 2019. State one aspect of the…
  5. 5A company presented their 2023 financial report in this graph. State one aspect of the graph that may be misleading and…
  6. 6Based on the pie chart shown on the right, Mrs Goh told Mr Goh that male drivers are worse drivers than female drivers.…
  7. 7The graph shows the total mass of food waste collected around a particular neighbourhood at the end of each given year.…
  8. 8The line chart below shows the sales performance of a company. Explain what is misleading about this line chart and how…
  9. 9The graph below shows the trend in the number of cases of people infected with the coronavirus in a particular country.…
  10. 10A survey was conducted to find out the preferred brand of mobile phone that secondary school students like. State one as…
  11. 11The line graph shows the profits that a company has made over a few years. State two ways in which the line graph may be…
  12. 12Peter draws this graph to show the duration of his monthly outgoing calls (in minutes) for the last three months. State…
  13. 13The graphs below show the average test scores of Class A and Class B over three consecutive years. What feature of the g…
  14. 14A company used the following line graph to show the annual profits made over a period of time. [Line graph shown below]…
  15. 15School students were surveyed on their favourite brand of drink. The results are represented in the pie chart below. Sta…
  16. 16The graph shows the average daily number of COVID-19 patients admitted into a particular hospital over a period of 6 mon…
  17. 17Justin drew this graph to show his mobile data usage for each of the following four months. State one aspect of the grap…
  18. 18State one aspect of the graph that may be misleading and explain how this may lead to a misinterpretation of the graph.