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Exercises: Dot Plots, Histograms, and Box Plots

Show your work for each construction. Label all axes with variable names and units.

Grade 6·23 problems·~37 min·Common Core Math - Grade 6·standard·6-sp-b-4
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Fluency Practice

Construct or analyze each type of data display.

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Construct a dot plot for this data set: {12, 14, 12, 15, 14, 12, 16}. Listing each distinct value once in increasing order with its dot count: value 12 gets   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   dots, value 14 gets   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   dots, value 15 gets   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   dots, value 16 gets   ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲   dots.

dots at 12:
dots at 14:
dots at 15:
dots at 16: