Common Core: 2nd Grade Math : Measurement & Data

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for Common Core: 2nd Grade Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #151 : Tables

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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How many people voted for Tony? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The bar for Tony is the second bar from the left. The bar raises to the number , which means  people voted for Tony. 

Example Question #402 : Measurement & Data

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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How many people voted for Emily? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The bar for Emily is the third bar from the left. The bar raises to the number , which means  people voted for Emily. 

Example Question #403 : Measurement & Data

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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How many people voted for Charlie? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The bar for Charlie is the third bar from the left. The bar raises to the number , which means  people voted for Charlie. 

Example Question #151 : Tables

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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Who won the class election? 

Possible Answers:

Emily

Megan

Mrs. Ryan

Tony

Charlie

Correct answer:

Emily

Explanation:

Emily received the most votes,  in total, so she won the class election. 

Example Question #405 : Measurement & Data

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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How many people voted? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

To find out how many totally peopled voted, we need to add up all of the votes that each person received. 

Example Question #406 : Measurement & Data

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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How many more people voted for the Emily than voted for Megan? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The phrase "how many more" tells us that we are going to subtract. We can take the number of people who voted for Emily and subtract the number of people who voted for the Megan. 

Example Question #407 : Measurement & Data

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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If four students who voted for Charlie change their minds and want to vote for another classmate, how many votes would Charlie have? 

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

If four people change their votes, we are taking  from the  votes that Charlie has. 

Example Question #167 : Tables

Mrs. Ryan's class had their class election today for their class president. The results are displayed in the chart below. 

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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Two students who wanted to vote for Tony were absent on the day Mrs. Ryan's class voted. If the teacher counts their votes, how many votes will Tony receive and will this change the results of the election? 

Possible Answers:

, which will not change who is class president. 

, which will not change who is class president. 

, which will not change who is class president. 

, which will change who is class president. 

, which will change who is class president. 

Correct answer:

, which will change who is class president. 

Explanation:

It Tony gets  more votes he will have a total of  votes. 

This will change the winner of the class election because before the two votes are added, Emily is the winner with only  votes. 

Example Question #5082 : Ssat Elementary Level Quantitative (Math)

Mr. Shine wants to do something different on Fridays, so he is going to add a subject to his class that he will teach every Friday. The results are shown in the table below.  

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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What is the title of the graph? 

Possible Answers:

Fridays

Number of Votes

What Subject Should We Add

Mr. Shine's Class

Subject

Correct answer:

What Subject Should We Add

Explanation:

The title of a bar graph can be found at the top of the graph, and it tells you what type of data the graph is displaying. In this case, our title is "What Subject Should We Add?" 

Example Question #401 : Measurement & Data

Mr. Shine wants to do something different on Fridays, so he is going to add a subject to his class that he will teach every Friday. The results are shown in the table below.  

Use the graph below to help answer the question. 

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What is the label of the x-axis? 

Possible Answers:

What Subject Should We Add?

Subject

Mr. Shine's Class

Fridays

Number of Votes

Correct answer:

Subject

Explanation:

A graph is made up of an x-axis and a y-axis. The x-axis of a graph is always the horizontal line (a line that runs from left to right) and the y-axis is alway the vertical line (a line that runs from top to bottom) 

The x-axis of this graph is labeled "Subject". 

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