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A principal was interested in the number of hours slept per night by 14-year-olds in a particular town. She gathered data from a random sample of ten 14-year-olds from a local youth group in the town and wanted to create an appropriate graphical representation for the data.

Which graphical representation would be best for her data?

Stem-and-leaf plot
Histogram
Circle graph
Bar graph

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The best graphical representation for the given data would be a histogram. A histogram is a graph that displays the distribution of continuous numerical data. It consists of a series of bars, where each bar represents a range of values and the height of the bar represents the frequency or proportion of data points that fall within that range. Since the variable of interest in this case is the number of hours slept per night, which is a continuous numerical variable, a histogram would be an appropriate way to display the distribution of the data. A stem-and-leaf plot is another way to display numerical data, but it is better suited for smaller data sets. Circle graphs and bar graphs are used to display categorical data.

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