Bradley is preparing a presentation to show the CEO of his company. He wants to emphasize that the profits of their competitor have increased slowly over the past 16 months.

The graphs below show the profit, y, of the competitor over the past 16 months. Both graphs show the same information.

Complete the following sentences.

To emphasize the slow increase in profits, it would be best for Bradley to use 1)_ for his presentation.

Bradley should use this graph for his presentation because the profit 2)___ on this graph.

1)
A. graph A
B. graph B

2)
A. increases more
B. is less
C. increases less
D. appears to increase more
E. appears to increase less

The vertical scale extends farther on graph A, so the vertical extent of the plotted data is a smaller portion of it, making it look like the competitor's profit hasn't increased much.

_____

This is how you can use the scale of a graph to influence the way the graphed data is interpreted. The practice is all too common.

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AFOKE88 AFOKE88 · Answer 2 · 2021-10-01T18:00:29+02:00

This is about steepness of Graphs.

A) Graph A

B) appears to increase less

A) Looking at the 2 graphs;

For Graph A; at 0 months, the profit was around $10,500 while at the 16th month, it was around $17000, This indicates an increase of $6500 over a period of sixteen months.

For Graph B; at 0 months, the profit was around $11,500 while at the 16th month, it was around $18000, This indicates an increase of $6500 over a period of sixteen months.

However, since he wants to show that the profit increase is slow, it will be better to use Graph A because it appears less steeper than that of graph B.

B) Graph A should be used because it has the appearance of lesser increase in profit.

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