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Mrs. Lee took a survey of the type of pets owned by her students.

A dot plot is displayed with the horizontal axis labeled "Types of pets" and six categories listed: birds, cats, dogs, other, rabbits, and turtles. Red dots represent the number of pets in each category, stacked vertically above the category names.
a

Which pet is most common?

cats

A

rabbits

B

dogs

C

birds

D

other

E

turtles

F
b

There is the fewest of which type of pet?

other

A

rabbits

B

turtles

C

dogs

D

cats

E

birds

F
c

How many students had rabbits?

d

Which pets could belong to the $other$other category?

Birds

A

Cats

B

Mice

C

Dogs

D
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A survey was conducted and the hair colours of the participants were recorded in the following dot plot.

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1min

50 people were surveyed and asked to rate the taste of a new type of museli. Their results are recorded in the table below.

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100 people were surveyed and asked to rate the taste of a new type of museli bar. Their results are recorded in the table below.

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1min
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S2-1

Conduct investigations using the statistical enquiry cycle:– posing and answering questions; – gathering, sorting, and displaying category and whole-number data; – communicating findings based on the data.

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