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6.SP.B.4 Tutor Intake -- Dot Plots, Histograms, Box Plots

This short check helps your tutor see where to start. Work on your own,
without a calculator. If you're unsure, give your best try — the goal is
to find what to work on together, not to grade you.

Grade 6·7 problems·~10 min·Common Core Math - Grade 6·standard·6-sp-b-4

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Concepts

A student draws a histogram with small gaps between each bar,
the way a bar chart for favorite colors would look. Is this
correct for a histogram of numerical data?

No — histogram bars should touch, because the bins partition a continuous numerical axis with no gaps between them.

Yes — gaps make the histogram easier to read, just like a bar chart.

It doesn't matter — gaps or no gaps, the histogram means the same thing either way.

No — but only because histograms should never have more than 5 bars.