Reading And Making Line Plots Worksheet

Reading And Making Line Plots

Lesson 1

Problem: Using the data given make the line plot

14,15.16.15,17,16,17,17

Solution Set up horizontal axis for this set of data

Step 1:

Solution The lowest is 14 (minimum value) and 17 is the highest (maximum value).

Step 2:

Solution Display this segment of a number line along horizontal axis.

Step 3:

Solution Place an x above its corresponding value on horizontal axis.

Step 4:

Solution Complete the line plot, place an x over 14, another over 14,

Step 5: then 14 and so forth until there is x for each value in the data set.

Complete

Try two practice problems:

Read the graph and interpret the average.