Common Core: 2nd Grade Math : Measurement & Data
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Example Question #411 : 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.
What is the label of the y-axis?
Number of Votes
Mr. Shine's Class
What Subject Should We Add?
Fridays
Subject
Number of Votes
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 y-axis of this graph is labeled "Number of Votes".
Example Question #161 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
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.
How many people voted for painting?
The bar for painting is the second bar from the left. The bar raises to the number 
Example Question #51 : Draw Picture And Bar Graphs To Represent A Data Set: Ccss.Math.Content.2.Md.D.10
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.
How many people voted for woodwork?
The bar for woodwork is the first bar on the left. The bar raises to the number 
Example Question #163 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
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.
How many people voted for pottery?
The bar for pottery is the second bar from the left. The bar raises to the number 
Example Question #162 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
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.
How many people voted for singing?
The bar for pottery is the second bar from the left. The bar raises to the number 
Example Question #412 : 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.
What subject got the most votes?
Pottery
Woodwork
Painting
Singing
Pottery
Pottery received the most votes, 
Example Question #164 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
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.
How many people voted?
To find out how many totally peopled voted, we need to add up all of the votes that each subject received.
Example Question #165 : How To Find The Answer From A Table
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.
How many more people voted for the pottery than voted for singing?
The phrase "how many more" tells us that we are going to subtract. We can take the number of people who voted for pottery and subtract the number of people who voted for the singing.
Example Question #411 : 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.
Two students who wanted to vote for painting were absent on the day Mr. Shine's class voted. If the teacher counts their votes, how many votes will painting receive and will this change the winning subject?
It painting gets 
This will not change the winning subject because the winning subject is pottery, with 
Example Question #51 : Draw Picture And Bar Graphs To Represent A Data Set: Ccss.Math.Content.2.Md.D.10
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.
If four students who voted for singing change their minds and want to vote for another subject, how many votes would singing have?
If four people change their votes, we are taking 
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