Some students reported how many pets they had. The dot plot shows the data collected: A dot plot is titled Students Pets and lab
eled Number of Pets. The values on the horizontal line are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. There are 5 dots above 0, 4 dots above 1, 3 dots above 2, 2 dot above 3, and 1 dot above 4. What do the dots above the number 3 indicate? There are exactly 2 students with 3 pets. There are exactly 3 students with 2 pets. There are exactly 2 students with more than 3 pets. There are exactly 3 students with more than 2 pets.
2 answers:
A dot plot is similar to histogram wherein they show the frequency of data. In this kind of plot, instead of bars, dots are stacked on their corresponding bin. The bins here are the number of pets, while the dots are the students. So, the 2 dots above number 3 signifies that, there are two students with three pets. The answer is A.
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