Lesson 2: Practice Problems

Problem 1

In hockey, a player gets credited with a “point” in their statistics when they get an assist or goal. The table shows the number of assists and number of points for 15 hockey players after a season.

Make a scatter plot of this data.

Make sure to scale and label the axes.

assists

points

Problem 2

Select all the representations that are appropriate for comparing bite strength to weight for different carnivores.

  1. Histogram

  2. Scatter plot

  3. Dot plot

  4. Table

  5. Box plot

Problem 3

When is it better to use a table? When is it better to use a scatter plot?

Problem 4 From Unit 5 Lesson 17

There are many cylinders with radius 6 meters. Let represent the height in meters and represent the volume in cubic meters.

  1. Write an equation that represents the volume as a function of the height .

  2. Sketch the graph of the function, using 3.14 as an approximation for .

  3. If you double the height of a cylinder, what happens to the volume? Explain this using the equation.

  4. If you multiply the height of a cylinder by , what happens to the volume? Explain this using the graph.