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Topic: How do you find the scale of a graph on a exam when its points are given?  (Read 1228 times)

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Offline AussieKenDoll

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See the attached photo
It shows the points for Temperature and Kp values to plot lnkp = -H/RT graph
How could I easily and quickly determine what is the best scale to draw the graph on a graphing paper at exam?
We are given this kind of questions anyway!
Is there an easy method?

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Well you're not going to plot K versus T. So the first thing I'd do is convert those into the values you will actually plot, which should inform what scale you should be plotting over.
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Always try to make the graph as large as possible, so use just a little below and above the limits of the data

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