IXL | Describe distributions in line plots

During her shift at the Cocoa Dream Candy Shop, Emma recorded the number of chocolates in each specialty box.

Chocolates in specialty boxes

number line label

Number of chocolates

Select all the statements that describe the distribution of the data.

The data has a peak at 20 chocolates.

The data is spread out from 4 to 20 chocolates.

The data is skewed right.

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Nick got a summer job walking dogs. He tracked how many minutes he spent walking each dog last week.

Walking dogs last week

number line label

Number of minutes

Select all the statements that describe the distribution of the data.

The distribution is roughly symmetric.

There is an outlier at 5 minutes.

The center of the data is at 10 minutes.

Look at the line plot.

Walking dogs last week

number line label

Number of minutes

See if each statement describes the distribution of the data.

green checkmark, The distribution is roughly symmetric.

The left and right sides of the distribution are almost mirror images. So, the distribution is roughly symmetric.

red X symbol, There is an outlier at 5 minutes.

There is an X in the column for 5, but it is close to another column with Xs. So, there is not an outlier at 5 minutes.

red X symbol, The center of the data is at 10 minutes.

The number of Xs to the left of 15 is almost the same as the number to the right. So the center of the data is at 15 minutes, not 10.

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