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Grade 4

10.03 More data displays

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Are you ready?

Picture graphs and line plots are examples of data displays. Do you remember how to read line plots?

Glen found a number of centipedes while working in his vegetable garden. He measured the lengths of the centipedes to the nearest fourth of an inch, and put the data into a line plot.

  1. How long was the longest centipede that Glen found?

  2. What was the most common length of centipede that Glen found?

Learn

This video explores different types of graphs, and things to think about when you want to know how to display data.

Vocabulary

A picture graph is also called a pictograph.

Apply

Question 1

Below is a graph showing the type of fruit each student in a class brought in for lunch yesterday.

Fruit for LunchFruitNumber510BananaAppleMandarinApricotOrange

  1. What was the most common fruit?

    Orange

    A

    Apple

    B

    Mandarin

    C

  2. How many more mandarins were brought than apricots?

  3. Complete the table below using the information from the graph.

    Fruit

    		 Number
    Banana 5
    Apple $\editable{}$
    Mandarin $\editable{}$
    Apricot $\editable{}$
    Orange $\editable{}$

 

Question 2

This pie graph and the table show the colors of fish in a tank.
Color of fish Number of fish
Red $4$4
Blue $2$2
Yellow $1$1
Orange $1$1

 
  1. Which graph best displays the color that is found on about half of the fish?

    Table

    A
    Pie graph
    B

  2. Which two colors are found on a similar number of fish?

    Blue and yellow
    A
    Orange and yellow
    B

Remember!

Different graphs are useful to display different types of data. 

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