Question

Sal counted the number of songs on each album in his collection. He created

both a dot plot and a box plot to display the same data:
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7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Number of songs
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H
H
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Number of songs
1. Which display makes it easier to see that the median is 10 songs?
Choose 1 answer:
The dot plot
The box plot
2. Which display allows us to see that the mode is 10 songs?
Choose 1 answer:
A The dot plot
The box plot

Answer 1

The box plot makes it easier to see that the median is 10 songs, as the median is represented by the middle line in the box.
The dot plot allows us to see that the mode is 10 songs, as it shows the frequency of each value by the number of dots above each value. Therefore, the dot plot allows us to easily identify the most frequently occurring value, which is the mode