6th Grade Math Textbook, Fundamentals

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Use the graph to answer the questions.

1.In what year did the Ashton Aces lose the same

number of games as they won? In what year did

they lose about twice as many games as they won?

2.What is the range of the data for wins and losses

during this 6-year period?

3.What is the median number of wins?

What is the median number of losses?

4.Summarize the data that the graph shows.

5.Discuss and Write Which measure(s) of central

tendency are easiest to find from a bar graph? Explain.

In what year did the leaders in both leagues hit the same number of home runs?

Explain how you can tell.

• 2003; the bars for both leagues are the same length for 2003.
  For the years shown, in which year and in which league did the league leader hit
  the greatest number of home runs? Explain.


• 2006, National League; the longest bar on the graph is the National League
  bar for 2006.
  Which league’s leader had the greater number of home runs most often?


• National League; the National League leader had more home runs than
  the American League leader in 3 of the 5 years shown.

A horizontal bar graph has the scale along the horizontal axis.

This double bar graph shows the number

of home runs hit by league leaders from

2003 to 2007.

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