Question

You make a bar graph with the following data. What do you plot on the x-axis?Month Average Average2012 Temperature Precipitation(°F)(in)Jan 39.12.2Feb 41.62.6Mar 56.35.8Apr 56.02.4May 67.82.4Jun 70.81.7Jul 79.42.7Aug 74.92.7Sep 67.12.4Oct 56.31.7Nov 43.10.6Dec 43.12.7Climate Data for Lynchburg, Virginia, 2012

Answer 1

On a bar graph (vertical bar graph), the x-axis represents the categories of data while the y-axis represents the scale given.

So, from the information given here the x-axis will be the months of the year given.

The x-axis will be the horizontal side of the graph with:

January

February

March

April

May

June

JUly

August

September

October

November

December