Explanation of a Histogram for 10th Standard Students 😎

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Histogram plots are used to better understand how frequently or infrequently certain values occur in a given set of data.

To understand the method behind constructing a histogram, imagine a set of values that are spaced out along a number line.

To construct a histogram, a section of the number line is divided into equal chunks, called bins. In the image below, the data is divided into five bins (note that for a histogram, the bins all must be the same width).

Next, count up how many data points sit inside each bin, and draw bars, one for each bin, whose heights correspond to the number of data points. This process is illustrated below.

Label the data (in the example below each data point is an SAT score), draw in a y-axis which counts the number of data points in each bin, and finally label your bins.

And that’s how to construct a histogram… by hand!

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