Question

A group of ten students recorded the number of minutes they spent on one math homework problem. The mean amount of time was 9 minutes, but the MAD was 7 minutes. Draw a dot plot to represent a data set that matches this description. Be sure to include a title and label your axis.

Answer 1

Here is an example of a dot plot (in text, did as best as I could to represent it) that matches the description you provided:

Number of Minutes Spent on Math Homework Problem

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10| o

9| o

8|

7| o

6|

5| o

4|

3| o

2|

1| o

0|___________________

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Students

This dot plot shows the number of minutes spent on a math homework problem by ten students. The mean amount of time is represented by the dot at the y-value of 9, and the MAD (Mean Absolute Deviation) is represented by the spread of the data around the mean.