A bar chart is best used to show what?

A) How the parts of a whole are distributed
B) A sequence of events from start to finish
C) The change in the composition of something over time
D) Trends
E) How quantities compare over time

E)A bar chart portrays numbers with the height or length of its rectangular bars, making a series of numbers easy to grasp quickly. Bars can be oriented horizontally or vertically (in which case they are sometimes referred to as column charts). Bar charts are particularly valuable when you want to show or compare quantities over time.