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5AT L3

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Question 1

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James gathered information on the home states of the swimmers on Team USA. He organized the data in a table. Would a dot plot be appropriate to display his data? Explain your reasoning.

Yes.  This would be a wonderful way to organize categorial data.

Yes.  This would be a wonderful way to organize numerical data.

No. He could use a bar graph because the home states of swimmers are categorical data.

No. He could use a bar graph because the home states of swimmers are numerical data.

Question 2

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16 students are in the class.

18 students are in the class.

17 students are in the class.

15 students are in the class.

Question 3

3.

Disagree. The unit of measurements is month, and the data shows ages between 16 and 36 years, which means the students are children not adults.

Disagree. The unit of measurements is month, and the data shows ages between 18 and 32 months, which means the students are young children, not adults.

Agree. The unit of measurements is year, and the data shows ages between 18 and 32 years, which means they are adults.

Question 4

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Half of the students are between 2 and 3 years old.

Disagree.  On the number line, eight of the 16 data points, or half of the class, are placed to the left of 24 months and to the right of 36 months.

Disagree.  On the number line, the distribution is evenly spread across 16 to 36 months.

Agree. On the number line, ten of the 16 data points, or half of the class, are placed to the right of 24 months and to the left of 36 months.

Agree. The unit of measurements is month, and the data shows ages between 18 and 32 months, which means the students are young children, not adults.

Agree. On the number line, eight of the 16 data points, or half of the class, are placed to the right of 24 months and to the left of 36 months.