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Chapter 15.4, Problem 13P

A fifth-grade class is wondering ¡f girls’ names tend to be longerthan boys’ names. Table 15.6 shows the names of all thefifth-grade girls and boys at the school.
Table 15.6 Fifth-grader names
Chapter 15.4, Problem 13P, A fifth-grade class is wondering ¡f girls’ names tend to be longerthan boys’ names. Table 15.6 shows , example 1

a. Display the lengths of the fifth-grade girls’ and boys’ names in dot plots. Compare the dot plots.
b. Write and answer at least four questions about your dot plots from part (a), including at least one question at each of the three graph-reading levels discussed in Section 15.2 (Read the data, Read between the data, and Read beyond the data).
c. Display the lengths of the fifth-grade girls’ and boys’ names in box plots.
d. Compare the box plots from part (c). What do they tell you about the fifth-grade girls’ and boys’ names?

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