Kali Is Pitching Her Company's Streamlined Data Management Service to a Company

Multiple Choice

Kali is pitching her company's streamlined data management service to a company. It is important for Kali's presentation that her listeners see that the costs of traditional data management systems have risen over the last five years, so she stretches the vertical axis of her line graph so that it looks like the costs have skyrocketed, even though they have only gone up by a small percentage. This is an example of

A) the missing zero beginning.
B) varied scale size.
C) scale distortion.
D) a format error.
E) grid misplacement.