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Chemistry
Histogram Practice
Name: _____________________
Period: _____________________
Part I: Questions about histograms.
Go to the website http://quarknet.fnal.gov/toolkits/ati/histograms.html and read the article on
histograms to answer the following questions.
1. How are values graphed in a histogram?
2. What information does a histogram show about the data with respect to the mean of the data?
3. In real life situations, how are data graphed for a histogram plot?
4. What is an advantage to using histograms?
Click the link for “Shodor Histogram Page” at the bottom of the website to answer the following
questions:
5. What is the mean body fat from the “252 Men” dataset?
6. Scroll down below the histogram mentioned above so you can see the data table. Add Lance
Armstrong with 4% body fat. Click “update histogram” right below the actual graph. What
is the new mean body fat?
7. Now add Brian Urlacher’s body fat of 6.2%. What is the new mean?
Part II. Make your own histogram.
A pharmaceutical production worker at a major drug company obtained the following amounts
of purified antibody to bovine protein. Create your own histogram from the data (in grams).
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Hints: How large are your bins? What is the frequency for each bin?
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