Question

create a dot plot for this data how many books did you read this summer 5 5 9 2 4 5 8 7 5 2 4 9 8 5 9 2

Answer 1

A dot plot is a type of frequency graph just like a histogram. Whereas a histogram uses 2 axes and bars to fill the frequency graph, the dot plot is only a number line with dots. A number line presents a parameter. For this problem, this is the number of books. When you ask a group of people on how many books they've read this summer, they would give a variety of numbers. These numbers are data point as listed above. If you want to see the frequency, you place a dot on top of the number every time a person answers that number. For example, 3 people said they've read 2 books this summer. So, on top of number two, you place 3 dots. Overall, you will be able to see which has the highest frequency by stacking the dots on top of each other.

The dot plot for this data set is shown in the picture.