Question

At a fund-raising event, participants got to throw one bowling ball down a lane. For every pin that a participant knocked down, the manager donated $2 to that participant's charity of choice. The line plot shows the number of pins each participant knocked down.

How many participants knocked down 7 pins?



16


14


4


2

Answer 1

I know line plots may be confusing but they aren't!

You just need to count the number of dots that are above the number you want.

Here, number of pins: you need to go to the "7." Count the number of dots above it -- 2.

2 participants knocked down 7 pins.

Answer Choice D.

Answer 2

The number of participants who knocked down 7 pins are:

2

Explanation:

The line plot provided to us represents the number of pins each participant knocked down.

i.e. the dots above the line represent the number of participants who knocked down that particular number of pin.

Based on the line plot we have following table:

Number of Pins Number of participant(i.e. number of dots)

4 1

5 1

6 0

7 2

8 2

9 6

10 4

Hence , we have that 2 participants knocked down 7 pins.