A researcher wants to visually display the U.S. divorce rate (a continuous, interval-ratio level variable) for the last 50 years. An appropriate format would be
a. a line chart or histogram.
b. only a histogram.
c. a pie chart.
d. none of the above. Data in the form of rate should never be displayed in a chart or graph.
ANSWER: a
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