Data Displayed in Line Plots
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Objective
I can create a line plot to represent a data set and interpret the data.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
A line plot uses dots or x's above a number line to show the frequency of data.
- 2
To create a line plot, draw a line and create buckets for each value in the data set.
- 3
Line plots make it easy to see how many data points are less than or greater than a certain value.
Part 3 of 4
Practice
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What is the purpose of a line plot?
Imagine you have a line plot showing the number of pets each student in a class owns. The ages range from 0 pets to 4 pets. If there are two dots above the number 2 on the line plot, what does this mean?
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Exit ticket
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“Here is a list of the number of books read by students in a class: 2, 0, 1, 3, 3, 2, 1, 0, 2, 2, 1, 4, 0, 1, 2. Create a line plot to represent this data. Then, how many students read more than 2 books?”
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