Chapter 13.3, Problem 34E

To determine

To explain: The reason why the given graph could be misleading.

Answer to Problem 34E

The explanation is given below.

Explanation of Solution

Given:

The graph:

  

Figure 1

Calculation:

In Figure 1, there are 2 barrels placed on the x-axis. The left barrel is smaller than the other barrel, both in width and in height. This somehow implies that the oil imports by OPEC countries is varying significantly from the oil imports by non-OPEC countries. For a proper comparison, the barrels should have been same in width which is not the case in Figure 2. So, a wrong impression of the quantity of the oil imported is portrayed by the given graph and hence, is misleading.