A dot plot titled Number of runs scored going from 0 to 5. 0 has 2 dots, 1 has 4 dots, 2 has 6 dots, 3 has 4 dots, 4 has 2 dots, and 5 has 1 dot. What is a dot plot and how do you read it? Check all that apply. A dot plot displays data values as dots above a number line. Dot plots show the frequency with which a specific item appears in a data set. There was 1 run in 5 of the games. There were 0 runs in 2 of the games. Dot plots show the distribution of the data. There were a total of 19 games.