Chapter B.1, Problem 36E

(a).

To determine

To explain:

Two graphs is misleading with reason.

Answer to Problem 36E

Scatter plot and line plot because line plot is displaying changes over time period as a series of company profits and scatter plot shows month is affected by the company profile.

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

  

The two graph which are misleading are scatter plot and line plot because line plot is displaying changes over a time period as a series of company profile and scatter plot show how much months is affected by company profile.

(b).

To determine

To explain:

Other ways in which graphs can be misleading.

Answer to Problem 36E

Other ways in which graphs can be misleading is line plot and scatter plot.

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

  

The other way is the line plot that shows the individual company profits over $12$ months with a small interval $0.4$ .

Scatter plot shows the relationship in between months and company profits over $12$ months period with a large interval $10$ .

(c).

To determine

To explain:Reason that it would be beneficial for someone to use a misleading graph.

Answer to Problem 36E

Someone can be used for reading a nature of the company profiles over $12$ months in two different ways.

Explanation of Solution

Given information:

  

Someone can be used for reading a nature of the company profiles over $12$ months in two different ways.

First someone can use line graph to read company profiles to know in which month the profits get down, when rise and when increase or decrease.

Second by using the scatter plot some can know how the company profits relate with the months.