Draw on the graph to create a histogram to display the data.
Question 8
8.
A student records the distances, in feet, of how far the paper airplanes of her 10 team members flew.
Her data are given.
Select circles above the number line to create a line plot of Gretchen’s data.
Question 9
9.
A student asks his classmates, “How many pets do you have?” He then records the data and uses them to create a line plot.
Which statement most likely describes the data the student uses to create the line plot?
The data are numerical and could have different values.
The data are categorical and only have one category.
The data are numerical and only have a single value.
The data are categorical and could have different categories.
Select the two questions that would result in categorical data.
How many students ride your school bus?
Who is your favorite author?
How many baby teeth have you lost?
How do you spend your time on the weekend?
How many minutes do you read each night?
Match each question to the type of data it would produce.
Categorical
Numerical
How many pets do you have?
What month were you born?
What time do you get up in the morning?
How long does it take you to get up in the morning?
A teacher collected data on the number of hours his students read at home during the week. The line plot displays this data.
Number of Hours Students Read at Home in One Week
A girl records the amount of water she drinks each hour for eight hours. The data are given in the table.
Which line plot matches the data in the table?
A student observed over 4 days at lunch the number of ants that visited different foods she placed on the sidewalk. She recorded the data in her notebook and created a bar graph.
Which prediction can she make based on the data?
More ants want to eat pickles than candy.
More ants want to eat candy than Lemon slices.
More ants will eat two different foods than one single food.
More ants will eat in the middle of the day than at the end of the day.
A student measures the lengths of some of her pencils to the nearest half inch. Her results are given.
5 ½ , 5, 4, 3 ½, 4 ½, 4, 6, 5 ½, 3, 4 ½
The student makes an error in her plot line, which displays her data.
Which statement best describes her error?
She plotted too many points.
She did not plot enough points.
She plotted a point at 3 that should have been at 3 ½.
She plotted a point at 5 that should have been at 4.