The histogram below shows the number of properties in a town that sold within certain time periods.

Histogram is a method of data representation that represents information in a given set of data accurately. it mainly deals with continuous variable where a plot of frequency against upper class boundaries is made. The histogram in this case shows a plot of number of properties sold in a town (y-axis) against time periods (x-axis). However, the scale on the y-axis misrepresents the difference in the heights of the bars.