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Give reasons why following sentences are right or wrong:

In dot method, every dot should have an appropriate scale.

The given statement is right.

Explanation: Every dot represents a certain value of the data that is being represented in the map. Thus, its size should be appropriate in relation to the data that it represents. If a larger dot is used to represent a smaller data it can lead to wrong conclusions during map interpretation.


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