Question

If you were to graph 1.14, 1.15, and 0.5. what would you count by on your number line?

Answer 1

If you want to include 0, the overall interval is 115 times 0.01, or 23 times 0.05 or 11.5 times 0.10. The latter might make it harder to plot 1.14, so I'd probably use an interval of 0.05.

Between 6 or 7 and about 25 intervals on a graph's scale are about right. More makes it pretty busy and sometimes difficult to tell which mark is associated with the number. A fewer number is indicated only if there are a fewer number of discrete values that need to be shown to adequately identify the data points.