Consider the following graph, which details a retailer’s profits over the course of several years.

of the following, which option or options would make this graph less misleading?

1. the y-axis should be labeled.
il the scale on the y-axis should be resized.
iii. the scale on the x-axis should be resized.
a. 1 only
b. 1 and ll
c. ll only
d. 1, ll, and lll

For a science project, a high school research team conducted a survey of local air temperatures. based on the results of the survey, the found that the average temperatures were around 10 degrees higher than expected. this result was wrong. the trouble with the survey was that most of the locations were exposed to direct sunlight and located over asphalt or sand, which resulted in higher temperatures than normal. this is a classic example of an error in which phase of inferential statistics?