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National 5; Working with the graphs of trigonometric functions Example. Trigonometric graphs can be sketched when you know the amplitude, period, phase and maximum and minimum turning points.

Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with unevenly spaced tick marks are shown. The representation of numbers in graphs should be proportional to the numbers themselves.