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Lesson 26 — Activity 2: Reading Information on Charts
Lesson 26 — Activity 2: Reading Information on Charts
Getting Ready
Another way to read information is from a chart. A chart gives you information in a number format. Charts are a good way to organize information when the amount of information is limited.
Charts are often used to organize survey responses. Have a look at the responses below.
Ten people were asked which is their favourite season:
Let's look closely at some other examples of charts.
Here is a chart with the statistics for some of the players on the Toronto Blue Jay's baseball team during 2015. It looks complicated at first glance. But you will find it isn't that difficult to understand after a few minutes of studying it, even if you know nothing about baseball.
Every chart has titles for each column. In this chart, the second column marked "Player" lists the names of 14 players. The first column lists each player's ranking. Each of the other columns lists the statistics for that player. For example, "Team" lists the team for each player. In this case, all of the players are members of the Toronto Blue Jays. "Pos" is the position the player fills. Of course, one needs to know what each heading means in order to fully understand all of the information.
The information can be used to compare the activities of different players.
Find the column with the players' names and the column labelled "2B". "2B" means how many doubles that player has hit. For example, C. Collabello has hit 19 doubles and D. Travis has hit 18 doubles.
The "HR" column reveals that J. Donaldson has hit 41 home runs, the most of any Blue Jays players listed on this chart.