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The annual production (in units) of a small factory over five years is given below. Draw a simple bar diagram to represent this data, and identify the year in which production increased the most compared to the previous year.

Year20192020202120222023
Production (units)120150100180200
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Step 1 — Draw the bar diagram. Mark the five years on the X-axis and production (units) on the Y-axis; draw five equal-width bars, one per year, each starting from a zero baseline.

Figure 9 — Simple Bar Diagram of Annual Factory Production (2019–2023)
Figure 9 — Simple Bar Diagram of Annual Factory Production (2019–2023)

Step 2 — Compute the year-on-year changes.

  • 2020 vs 2019: 150−120=30150-120=30
  • 2021 vs 2020: 100−150=−50100-150=-50
  • 2022 vs 2021: 180−100=80180-100=80
  • 2023 vs 2022: 200−180=20200-180=20

Step 3 — Identify the largest increase. Comparing +30,−50,+80,+20+30, -50, +80, +20, the largest positive change is +80+80, occurring in 2022.

Independent check. Re-computing directly from the bar heights (rather than the running differences): the biggest single jump between two adjacent bars is visibly between the 2021 bar (100) and the 2022 bar (180), a rise of 80 units — matching the arithmetic.

✓Final answer

Production increased the most in 2022, rising by 80 units (from 100 to 180) compared to 2021.

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