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In some cases you may want to show the greatest amount of something first, and the lesser amounts in the order in which they are decreasing. Typically, election results are reported this way. First you want to know who won the election, and then you want to know who came in second, and then who came in third, etc. In a bar graph, the height of the bar shows you how much you have of whatever that bar is supposed to measure. So with a declining order bar graph, the highest bar is on the left, and then each additional bar is shorter, in sequence, leading to the shortest bar, at the right end of the graph.

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