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Lesson 24 — Activity 3: Chart Analysis
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Lesson 24 — Activity 3:
Chart
Analysis
Getting Ready
You now know the parts of a chart and how to read it. But how can a chart help you make a decision? Charts allow you to gather information and organize it in a way that allows you to compare choices. In this activity, you will practise analyzing charts.

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Let's look at how a chart can help you choose an apartment. We have found three advertisements in a local paper that have the following information.
Apartment A:
$650/month
*utilities included
*500 square feet in size
Apartment B:
$575/month
*utilities extra ($80/month)
*550 square feet in size
Apartment C:
$500/month
*utilities extra ($125 month)
*525 square feet in size
This is a lot of information to read and understand! An easy way to compare the three places is to put them in a chart.
Let's use rent, utilities, size, and total cost for our headings.
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Let's use Apartment A, Apartment B, and Apartment C for row titles.
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The information for Apartment A is entered like this:
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The information for Apartment B is entered like this:
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Finally, the information for Apartment C is entered like this:
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Now you have a chart that will let you compare information without having to look at a whole bunch of different pieces of paper.
Self-check!
Try this!
Click here for a Flash activity where you will work on creating a chart
in order to compare facts.