Let’s Practice!
Can you answer questions about data while reading a line plot?
Goal:
Goal:
You Can Do It!
Goal: Interpret a line plot to answer questions.
Can you read the line plots to answer questions? Look at the scenario and the line plot. Then, answer the questions that follow.
Some students took a survey of the number of letters in their first names. They counted the number of letters in their first names and then put an X on the line plot for that number. This is the line plot they created.
Line plot. Title: Number of letters in first name.
3 letters: 2
4 letters: 5
5 letters: 6
6 letters: 4
7 letters: 1
8 letters: 2
Let’s look at the line plot and answer some questions.
How many children have 4 letters in their names?
- 5 children
- 6 children
- 4 children
- 0 children
Correct! 5 children have 4 letters in their name.
Count the number of Xs above the 4 letters label on the line plot.
Count the number of Xs above the 4 letters label on the line plot.
Count the number of Xs above the 4 letters label on the line plot.
How many children have 8 letters in their names?
- 5 children
- 6 children
- 4 children
- 2 children
Count the number of Xs above the 8 letters label on the line plot.
Count the number of Xs above the 8 letters label on the line plot.
Count the number of Xs above the 8 letters label on the line plot.
Correct! 2 children have 8 letters in their name.
Which number of letters was counted the most often?
- 7 letters
- 5 letters
- 6 letters
- 3 letters
Look for the label with the most Xs above it.
Correct! 5 letters were counted most often.
Look for the label with the most Xs above it.
Look for the label with the most Xs above it.
Which number of letters was counted the least often?
- 7 letters
- 5 letters
- 6 letters
- 8 letters
Correct! 7 letters was counted least often.
Look for the label with the fewest number of Xs above it.
Look for the label with the fewest number of Xs above it.
Look for the label with the fewest number of Xs above it.
Which numbers of letters occurred the same number of times?
- 3
- 5
- 7
- 8
Close! Look for the labels that have the same number of Xs above them.
Close! You missed an answer. Look for the labels that have the same number of Xs above them.
Great job! 3 and 8 were counted the same amount.
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