A data shows ‘amount spent on items’ like: House rent , food , education etc.If you have to draw a horizontal bar graph then where will you put ‘amount spent on items’ on ‘vertical line’ or ‘horizontal line’?

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Generally data are represented on the system of XY axis also known as cartesian axis.
The vertical line or Y- axis used to represent the frequency of data (i.e. number of entities) whereas horizontal line or X -axis used to represent class or type of data.
Thus, in Y -axis is used to represent the amount spent on items.

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