Excursions in Modern Mathematics (9th Edition)
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Author: Peter Tannenbaum
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Chapter 15, Problem 8E
Exercise 5 through 10 refer to Table 15-13, which gives the home-to-school distance d (rounded to the nearest half-mile) for each of the 27 kindergarten students at Cleansburg Elementary School.
Table 15-13
Home-to-school distance
| Student ID | d | Student ID | d |
| 1362 | 1.5 | 3921 | 5.0 |
| 1486 | 2.0 | 4355 | 1.0 |
| 1587 | 1.0 | 4454 | 1.5 |
| 1877 | 0.0 | 4561 | 1.5 |
| 1932 | 1.5 | 5482 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 0.0 | 5533 | 1.5 |
| 2103 | 2.5 | 5717 | 8.5 |
| 2877 | 1.0 | 6307 | 1.5 |
| 2964 | 0.5 | 6573 | 0.5 |
| 3491 | 0.0 | 8436 | 3.0 |
| 3588 | 0.5 | 8592 | 0.0 |
| 3711 | 1.5 | 8964 | 2.0 |
| 3780 | 2.0 | 9205 | 0.5 |
| 9658 | 6.0 |
Draw a bar graph for the home-to-school distances for the kindergarteners at Cleansburg Elementary School using the following class intervals:
Zone A: 1.5 miles or less
Zone B: more than 1.5 miles up to and including 2.5 miles
Zone C: more than 2.5 miles up to and including 3.5 miles
Zone D: more than 3.5 miles
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