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Advanced Keyboard/STATISTICS USING THE SHARP EL-9900

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Steps for creating a non-weighted data set's broken-line graph

1.

Turn the calculator on and press STAT to enter the statistics menu.

Delete old data and enter the following data set for L1:

15

28

17

36

38

19

13

25

27

41

2.

Check the data you have entered by pressing

▲ to move back through

the data.

3.

To graph a broken-line graph for the data set, first press STAT PLOT

A (PLOT1) ENTER . Turn PLOT1 on by pressing ENTER .

Press

▼ ENTER to choose one-variable data. Press ▼ 2ndF L1

ENTER to enter L1 as the data list. Clear the frequency prompt by pressing

DEL ENTER . Set the graph to a broken line graph by pressing

STAT PLOT B (B.L.) 3 (Broken).

4.

In our example, the smallest value is 13 and the largest value is 41.

The logical intervals for the data set would be 10-19 (tens), 20-29 (twenties),

30-39 (thirties), and 40-49 (forties). To set this viewing window, press

WINDOW and set the horizontal axis to 10 < x < 50 with Xscl = 10.

Set the vertical axis to 0 < y < 5 with Yscl = 1.

5.

To view the graph, press GRAPH .

6.

Press TRACE and then press repeatedly to trace the points making up

the broken-line graph.

7.

Turn PLOT1 off by pressing STAT PLOT ENTER ENTER

2ndF QUIT .

OTHER GRAPHICAL PORTRAYALS OF A
ONE-VARIABLE DATA SET