1. Imagine you are investigating blood cholesterol level and diet.
You collect the following data from 1000 patients. What graph would
best communicate the data? Draw what the graph should look like.
Patient
Blood Cholesterol Average
Grams
Average Grams
Number
Level (mg/dl) Peanut butter per
week Tofu per week
1
207
56
5
2
150
43
18
3
212
0
34
4
211
87
0
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1000
175
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2. You are trying to figure out how literacy rates have changed
in Honduras between 1950 and 2000. What graph would best communicate
the following data? Draw what the graph should look like.
Year % Literacy
of % Literacy of
Men
Women
1950
45
18
1951
45
19
1952
46
19
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2000
55
21
3. You are trying to find out if year of women suffrage is at all related
to the percent of woman who are literate. You gather data from all
the countries of the world. Draw what the graph should look like.
Year Woman % of Women
that
Country
Suffrage
are literate in 2002
Albania
1948
47
Austria
1918
98
Australia
1921
100
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4. You want to show the age distribution of people in Costa Rica in graphic
form. What graph would best communicate the following data? Draw
what the graph should look like.
Between ages
% of Population
0-5
8.2
5-10
7.6
10-15
6.1
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90-95
0.03
5. You have completed a survey of forest tent caterpillar along
transect lines on the east and west sides of Camels Hump. How would
you display the following data in graphic form? Draw what the graph
should look like.
Site
Elevation Number of Caterpillars
Aspect
(feet)
caught in trap
E
1400
22
W
1400
15
E
1600
87
W
1600
91
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E
4000
5
W
4000
3
6. You are investigating the effect of acetaminophen on heart rate
in rats. You run your experiment on 1000 rats. How would you graph
the following data?
Draw what the graph should look like.
Rat
Heart Rate
Dose
Number Resting
(B/min) 5mg 10mg
15mg 20mg 25mg 30mg
1
200
198 203
197 201
215 208
2
223
227 224
194 235
245 213
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1000
215
218 217
220 221 213
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