A data shows the different number of cars manufactured during the years ; 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004.If you have to draw a vertical bar graph, then where will you put the ‘Number of cars manufactured on vertical line or horizontal line ?
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 number of cars manufactured.