creating and analyzing dot plots.pdf
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Mr. Mann took a survey of his teachers asking, “How many minutes did you take to eat breakfast this morning?”
Here is the data he collected:0, 5, 8, 11, 7, 3, 0, 10, 11, 0, 4, 0, 15, 15, 0, 5, 11, 3, 7, 8, 11, 5, 12, 7, 3, 7, 2, 7, 11, 20
Creating and Analyzing Dot PlotsDot Plot: A graphical display of data using dots to represent each data point on a number line.
Step 1--organize! Complete the chart
How could you take this data set and represent it in a dot plot?
data frequency0 51 02 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 20
Step 2--Find the least and greatest numbers to find the range of minutes it took to eat breakfast.Least________ Greatest _________
Range (Greatest - Least) ________________
Step 3--plot!
Questions:1. What does it mean to have a dot above the number 0?
2. What do you think the person who took 20 minutes to eat breakfast ate? What about the person who took 2 minutes?
3. How many people ate breakfast in 10 minutes or less? How many people took more than 10 minutes?
4. Do you think most people ate a good, balanced breakfast?
Number of Minutes to eat breakfast