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up for bid. Which contestant shown below will win if

they are bidding on a bedroom set that has a

suggested retail price of $4,745?

96. PRESIDENTS The following list shows the ten
    youngest U.S. presidents and their ages (in
    years/days) when they took office. Construct a
    two-column table that presents the data in order,
    beginning with the youngest president.


97. MISSIONS TO MARS The United States, Russia,
    Europe, and Japan have launched Mars space probes.
    The graph shows the success rate of the missions, by
    decade.
    a. Which decade had the greatest number of successful
    or partially successful missions? How many?
    b. Which decade had the greatest number of
    unsuccessful missions? How many?
    c. Which decade had the greatest number of
    missions? How many?
    d. Which decade had no successful missions?

1 Art 6

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

1960s

Source: The Planetary Society

1970s 1980s

Launch date

1990s

Unsuccessful

Successful or partially successful

Number of missions to Mars

2000s

10

98. SPORTS The graph shows the maximum recorded
    ball speeds for five sports.
    a. Which sport had the fastest recorded maximum
    ball speed? Estimate the speed.
    b. Which sport had the slowest maximum recorded
    ball speed? Estimate the speed.
    c. Which sport had the second fastest maximum
    recorded ball speed? Estimate the speed.


99. ENERGY RESERVES Complete the bar graph and
    line graph using the data in the table.

25

50

75

100

125

150

175

200

225

U.S. Venezuela Canada

Line graph

Gas reserves (trillion cubic ft)

ArgentinaMexico

25

50

75

100

125

150

175

200

U.S. Venezuela Canada

Bar graph

Gas reserves (trillion cubic ft)

ArgentinaMexico

225

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

Baseball

Speed (miles per hour)

Golf Ping-Pong Tennis Volleyball

200

220

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J. Polk 49 yr/122 days U. Grant 46 yr/236 days

G. Cleveland 47 yr/351 days J. Kennedy 43 yr/236 days

W. Clinton 46 yr/154 days F. Pierce 48 yr/101 days

M. Filmore 50 yr/184 days Barack Obama 47 yr/169 days

J. Garfield 49 yr/105 days T. Roosevelt 42 yr/322 days

United States 211

Venezuela 166

Canada 58

Argentina 16

Mexico 14

Natural Gas Reserves, 2008

Estimates (in Trillion Cubic Feet)

Source:Oil and Gas Journal,August 2008