Growth charts are commonly used by a child’s pediatrician to monitor a child’s growth.

Consider the growth chart that follows.

a. What are the two variables shown in the graph?

b. What information does the ordered pair (3, 87)
represent?

c. Describe how the pediatrician might use this chart and what types of conclusions might be based on the information displayed by it.

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Height (cm) 95 Growth Chart 94 93 92 91 90 89 88- 87 86 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 Age (yrs) 5.0 5.5 6.0