Answer the Question. -A Television Manufacturer Sold Three Times as Many Televisions in Many

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Essay

Answer the question.
-A television manufacturer sold three times as many televisions in 1995 as it did in 1985. To
illustrate this fact, the manufacturer draws a pictogram as shown below. The television on
the right is three times as tall and three times as wide as the television on the left. Why is this pictogram misleading? What visual impression is portrayed by the pictogram?

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