Essentials of Statistics (5th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32192-459-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-32192-459-9

Chapter 2 - Summarizing and Graphing Data - 2-4 Graphs That Enlighten and Graphs That Deceive - Page 72: 22

Answer

The second bill's area became $2\cdot2=4$ times bigger instead of 2 times.

Work Step by Step

The second bill's area became $2\cdot2=4$ times bigger instead of 2 times, which makes it deceptive, because this suggests that the ticket became 4 times more expensive.
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