Based on the number of telephones per people in the country given, the best scale would be a 100 telephones per 1 cm scale on the vertical axis.
What scale should be used?
India has a small number of telephones per 1,000 people of 8 while the U.S. had a high number of 800.
Any scale used would have to cater for these two extremes while also catering for the numbers between.
The best scale would therefore be a 100 telephones per 1,000 people. The separation of each hundred would be 1 cm which every 0.1 cm representing 10 telephones per 1,000 people.
The graph is shown attached.
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