Question

The following table shows the amount of rice grown by a farmer in different years:

Years:	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Rice grown (in quintals):	200	180	240	260	250	200	270

Plot a graph to illustrate this information.

Answer 1

Here, year is an independent variable and quantity of rice grown is a dependent variable. So, we take years on the x-axis and quantity of rice grown on the y-axis.
Let us choose the following scale:
On x-axis: 2 cm = 1 year
On y-axis: 1 cm = 20 quintals
Let us assume that the origin O represents the coordinates (1999, 160).
Now, let us plot (2000, 200), (2001, 180), (2002, 240), (2003, 260), (2004, 250),(2005, 200),(2006, 270). These points are joined to get the graph representing the given information as shown in the figure below.​