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Create and interpret dot plots (simple)

Interactive practice questions

A teacher made the following dot plot for the number of students in the class who had a dog and the number of students who had a cat.

A dot plot representing the number of students who had a dog and cat is presented. The horizontal axis is labeled "Cat" and "Dog." Red dots represent the number of students. There are $4$4 red dots on Dog, and $7$7 red dots on Cat.
a

How many students in the class have cats?

b

How many more students own cats than dogs?

c

How many students are there altogether in the class who own either a cat or a dog?

Easy
< 1min

A teacher made the following dot plot for the number of boys and girls in the class.

Easy
1min

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

Easy
< 1min

Here is a dot plot of the number of goals scored in each of Bob’s soccer games.

Easy
1min
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Outcomes

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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