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10.08 Dot plots

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

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

Easy
1min

Mr. Wong counted the different eye colours of his students in his karate class. He recorded them in the following dot plot.

Easy
< 1min

Each student in the class was asked to write down the number of siblings they had. The teacher recorded in the results in the dot plot.

Easy
< 1min
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Outcomes

MS11-2

represents information in symbolic, graphical and tabular form

MS11-7

develops and carries out simple statistical processes to answer questions posed

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