Graphing and Describing Data in Everyday Life

 

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Suppose that you have two sets of data. The first set is a list of all the injuries that were seen in a clinic in a month's time. The second set contains data on the number of minutes that each patient spent in the waiting room of a doctor's office. You can make assumptions about other information or variables that are included in each data set. 

For each data set, propose your idea of how best to represent the key information.  

1. To organize your data, would you choose to use a frequency table, a cumulative frequency table, or a relative frequency table? Why? 
2. What type of graph would you use to display the organized data from each frequency distribution? What would be shown on each of the axes for each graph? 

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students and their peers. In the discussions, students will do the following:

• Demonstrate understanding of concepts for the week.

• Integrate scholarly resources.

• Engage in meaningful dialogue with classmates.

• Express opinions clearly and logically, in a professional manner.

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• These 2 posts must be on 2 separate days Monday through Sunday. (Initial posts made

before Monday will not be graded.)

• The number of graded discussions may vary depending on the course.

• Week 1-7 discussions must be completed by end of week, Sunday, 11:59 p.m. Mountain

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• Week 8 discussion must be completed by end of week, Saturday, 11:59 p.m. Mountain

Time (MT).

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