Question

16 students at a school were asked about their favorite pasta dish. A graph of the results is on the left.

Create a bar graph showing the possible results for all 400 students in the school. Be sure to number the vertical axis.

Answer 1

Explanation:

to solve this question, we need to use the graph on the left to find the proportions of students who prefer each pasta dish, and then multiply those proportions by 400 to get the estimated number of students in the whole school who prefer each pasta dish. Then we need to plot those numbers on a bar graph with the pasta dishes on the horizontal axis and the number of students on the vertical axis. The graph below shows one possible way to create the bar graph:

We can see that the vertical axis is numbered from 0 to 120 in increments of 20. The bars show the estimated number of students who prefer each pasta dish, based on the sample of 16 students. For example, since 4 out of 16 students prefer spaghetti, we can estimate that 4/16 x 400 = 100 students in the whole school prefer spaghetti. Similarly, since 3 out of 16 students prefer lasagna, we can estimate that 3/16 x 400 = 75 students in the whole school prefer lasagna. We can repeat this process for the other pasta dishes and plot them on the graph.

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