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Use the circle graph titled Teenager’s Weekend.
- How many times greater is a teenager’s television and movie
time than his or her shopping time? - On graph paper, construct a different kind of appropriate graph
that shows the number of hours (not the fractional part) that
a teenager spends on each activity in four weekends.
Give your graph a title and label all of its parts.
Use the circle graph at the right.
- There are 64 students in the sixth grade Sixth Graders’ Favorite Books
at Whitman School. How many favor
mystery books? - How many sixth graders chose
science fiction books? - What fractional part of the sixth graders
prefer books that are notscience fiction? - How many more sixth graders chose
mystery books than sports books? - Which two types of books do one 13. Explain how the circle graph would
fourth of the sixth graders favor? differ if 8 of the sixth graders chose
Which two types do three fourths science fiction books instead of
of the sixth graders favor? mystery books.
Use the circle graph at the right.
Teenager’s Weekend
- About how many weekend hours do
teenagers spend playing sports? - About how many more weekend hours do
teenagers spend reading and doing
homework than they spend eating? - To which two sets of activities do
teenagers devote the same amount of
weekend time? how much time?
Playing Sports
Television/
Movies Homework/
Reading
Telephone/
Computer
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Shopping 241 1
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