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Exercises: Represent Data with Plots on the Real Number Line

Work through each section in order. For plots, read carefully: dot plots show every individual value, histograms group values into intervals (bars touch), and box plots summarize data with the five-number summary (minimum, Q1, median, Q3, maximum). Write explanation answers in complete sentences.

Grade 9·22 problems·~35 min·Common Core Math - HS Statistics and Probability·group·hss-id-a-1
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Warm-Up: Reading Data Displays

These problems review reading values and plotting on a number line.

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A student records hours of sleep for 5 classmates: 7,8,6,8,97, 8, 6, 8, 9. To build a dot plot, she lists the values in order. What is the smallest value she should label at the left end of the number line?