Question

marcus read each day for 17 days. the table shows how many minutes he read each day
complete the dot plot so that it shows the number of days marcus read for each amount of time.
select the location on each column of dots to correctly represent the data.
reading
minutes
minutes
1
2
3
minutes
number of days
1
1\frac{1}{2}
2
2\frac{1}{2}
3
2
1
5
6
3

Explanation:

Step1: Understand the dot - plot concept

A dot - plot uses dots to represent the frequency of data points. Each dot corresponds to one data value.

Step2: Analyze the given data

We have minutes values \(1,\frac{1}{2},2,\frac{3}{2},3\) and their respective number of days \(2,1,5,6,3\).

Step3: Place the dots

For \(1\) minute: place \(2\) dots.
For \(\frac{1}{2}\) minute: place \(1\) dot.
For \(2\) minutes: place \(5\) dots.
For \(\frac{3}{2}\) minutes: place \(6\) dots.
For \(3\) minutes: place \(3\) dots.

Answer:

Place \(2\) dots above \(1\), \(1\) dot above \(\frac{1}{2}\), \(5\) dots above \(2\), \(6\) dots above \(\frac{3}{2}\), and \(3\) dots above \(3\) on the dot - plot.