In August \(2024\), Paris, France will host the Summer Olympic Games. The table below contains information about the sports that were at some of the first five modern Olympic Games.
| Year | Location | Sports |
|---|---|---|
| \(1896\) | Athens, Greece | athletics, road cycling, track cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis, weightlifting, wrestling |
| \(1900\) | Paris, France | archery, athletics, Basque pelota, cricket, croquet, track cycling, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, polo, rowing, rugby, sailing, shooting, swimming, tennis, tug-of-war, water polo |
| \(1904\) | St. Louis, USA | archery, athletics, boxing, track cycling, diving, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, roque, rowing, swimming, tennis, tug-of-war, water polo, weightlifting, wrestling |
| \(1908\) | London, England | archery, athletics, boxing, track cycling, diving, fencing, figure skating, football, field hockey, gymnastics, jeu de paume, lacrosse, polo, rackets, rowing, rugby, sailing, shooting, swimming, tennis, tug-of-war, water motorsports, water polo, wrestling |
| \(1912\) | Stockholm, Sweden | athletics, road cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, gymnastics, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, shooting, swimming, tennis, tug-of-war, water polo, wrestling |
Create a graph that displays the number of sports in each of the first five modern Olympic Games.
State five observations/conclusions from your graph.
Answers may vary. A bar graph displaying this information is shown below.
Observations gleaned from the graphs will vary. Here are some possible observations.
The fewest number of sports occurred in the year \(1896\).
The most number of sports occurred in the year \(1908\).
Other than \(1896\) and \(1908\), there were about the same number of sports (between \(16\) and \(20\)).
The number of sports doubled from \(1896\) to \(1900\).
\(18\) is the median number of sports. (Since there are five bars, the third highest bar is the median.) This occurred in the year \(1904\).
There doesn’t seem to be a steady increase in the number of events, so it would be hard to predict how many events future games would hold.