Using Data

The manager of a cafeteria

took a poll of 150 students to

find the most popular lunch.

The manager drew a circle

graph to display the data.

How many more students

chose spaghetti than corn

dogs as their favorite lunch?

• 14

• 24

• 18

• 42

Band members are selling

magazines to raise $150 for a

school dance. The bar graph

shows the amount of the sales

so far. How much more money

do the band members need to

raise?

• $20

• $130

• $150

• $50

Rachel collects animal

figurines. How many more

zebras does she need to

collect to have more

zebras than any other

animal?

• 5

• 3

• 4

• 6

Mrs. Jackson took a poll of 80

students to find out how they

get to school. How many

more students get to school

on a bus than in a car?

• 8

• 32

• 24

• 20

Marie took a poll of the time

students in her class went to bed

last night. The dot plot shows the

results of Marie’s poll. How many

more students went to bed

before 9:30 pm compared to the

number of students that went to

bed at 9:30 pm or later?

• 8

• 7

• 1

• 9

A custodian at an

elementary school is painting

the playground. The

custodian asked students in

the school what color they

wanted the playground

painted. The results are

shown in the graph. How

many more students voted

for orange than for blue or

yellow?

• 50

• 30

• 190

• 70

Family Fun Fitness tracked the

usage of cardio machines to

determine how many

members used certain pieces

of equipment last week. The

circle graph shows the results.

How many of the 500

members that used cardio

equipment did NOT use a

stepper or treadmill?

• 190

• 115

• 75

• 185

The Pet Palace recorded their

sales over a week. The results

are recorded in the dot plot.

How many more fish and frogs

were sold than cats and birds?

• 10

• 5

• 4

• 8

Shrub Oak Ice Cream Shop

took a survey of the most

popular flavors of the first 200

customers last weekend. The

results are shown in the circle

graph. How many more

people preferred chocolate

over butter pecan?

• 22

• 44

• 40

• 25

Melissa surveyed 55 kids in

her class to find out their

favorite type of movie. The

results are shown in the bar

graph. Based on the

information, which two types

of movies were chosen by

40% of the people surveyed?

• action and horror

• action and comedy

• horror and animated

• horror and comedy