Unit 6, Lesson 1
Organizing Data
Grade 8
Practice
Problem 1
Student Task Statement
Here is data on the number of cases of whooping cough from 1939 to 1955.
year number of cases 1941 222,202 1950 120,718 1945 133,792 1942 191,383 1953 37,129 1939 103,188 1951 68,687 1948 74,715 1955 62,786 1952 45,030 1940 183,866 1954 60,866 1944 109,873 1946 109,860 1943 191,890 1949 69,479 1947 156,517 - Make a new table that orders the data by year.
- Circle the years in your table that had fewer than 100,000 cases of whooping cough.
- Based on this data, would you expect 1956 to have closer to 50,000 cases or closer to 100,000 cases?