EXERCISE 1

Hillary sampled an equal number of boys and girls at her high school and asked them to pick the one snack food they liked the most from the following list: popcorn, chips, chocolate bars, crackers, pretzels, cookies, and ice cream, fruit, candy, vegetables.

She created a graph to display the results of her survey. Examine the Figure and answer the following questions:

1. What is compared in this graph?
2. Which snack food was preferred the least by girls?
3. Which snack foods were preferred more by boys than by girls?
4. Which snack foods were preferred more by girls than by boys?
5. Which snack food was preferred equally by boys and girls?
6. How many girls preferred candy as their snack food?

Figure 5. Preferred snack choices of students at Hillary's high school Candy Chips Chocolate bars Cockies Crackers Girls Fruit Boys Ice cream Popcorn Pretzels Vegetables 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 Number of students