Jonah and his sister are going to the amusement park. They each purchase 2 tickets at $1.25 each. Then, they each get a soda for $3.50 a piece. How much did they spend all together?

The major difference is that a histogram is only used to plot the frequency of score occurrences in a continuous data set that has been divided into classes, called bins.  bar charts, on the other hand, can be used for a great deal of other types ofvariables  including  ordinal  andnominal  data sets.