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Applied Mathematics · Ch 10 — Descriptive Statistics

Line Graph

10.4.3

Line Graph

A line graph is the natural choice when you want to see how a quantity changes over time — think temperature across a day or sales over months. Instead of isolated bars or slices, it connects successive data points with straight line segments, making trends, rises, and falls immediately visible. The horizontal axis (xx-axis) usually carries the time intervals, while the vertical axis (yy-axis) shows the measured value. This simple visual lets y …