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Exercises: Distributions — Center, Spread, and Shape

Use the vocabulary: center, spread, and shape to describe data distributions.

Grade 6·17 problems·~20 min·Common Core Math - Grade 6·standard·6-sp-a-2
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Reading Distributions

Use each display to describe the distribution.

Histogram of sleep hours for 20 students. The tallest bar is at 7-8 hours. The distribution is roughly symmetric and bell-shaped, centered around 7-8 hours.
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A histogram shows hours of sleep for 20 students. Describe the center, spread, and shape of this distribution in 2–3 sentences.