Common Core: 6th Grade Math : Describe the Nature of the Attribute Under Investigation: CCSS.Math.Content.6.SP.B.5b

Study concepts, example questions & explanations for Common Core: 6th Grade Math

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Example Questions

Example Question #11 : Describe The Nature Of The Attribute Under Investigation: Ccss.Math.Content.6.Sp.B.5b

Mrs. Hobb's  grade class just completed a fundraiser to help fund their field trips for this school year. The money that the students sold is displayed in the histogram provided. What is the the unit of measurement in this chart?


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Possible Answers:

Dollars

Money

Hours

Cents

Correct answer:

Dollars

Explanation:

To answer this question correctly, we need to look at the histogram. The teacher is tracking dollars that each student made through the fundraiser; thus, the correct answer is dollars. 

Example Question #72 : Statistics & Probability

Mrs. Hobb's  grade class just completed a fundraiser to help fund their field trips for this school year. The money that the students sold is displayed in the histogram provided. How many students made sales during the fundraiser?

 


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Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

For this plot, the number of observations made represents the number of students that participated in the made money through the fundraiser. Each bar goes up to a certain number of students, so we can add up the height of each bar to determine the number of observations that were made.

If done correctly,  we should have found that  students fundraised. 

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