Drawing Conclusions from Graphs #1

Choose which situation does not accurately describe the event that is graphed.

• As Josh drives from his destination to his house with each passing hour he has less miles to his house.

• Josh drove 160 miles to his house in 4 hours.

• As Josh drives from his house to his destination with each passing house he is farther away from his house.

• Josh started 160 miles from his house and drove 4 hours to finally arrive.

What conclusion can you not draw from this graph?

• They started with 15 gallons of gas.

• They will run out of gas in 200 miles.

• The car they are driving gets 25 miles for every gallon of gas used.

• They will run out of gas before they reach 400 miles.

What conclusions could be drawn from this graph?

• The hikers are making their way down into the bottom of the canyon.

• The hikers are making their way to the top of the canyon.

• They started at 360 feet above sea level.

• They are hiking at 20 miles per hour.

Which one of these conclusions could NOT be drawn from this graph?

• The building only has 20 floors.

• The elevator takes about 1 second a floor.

• There are 3 level below the ground floor.

• It takes zero seconds to get to the 20th floor from the 20th floor.

Which conclusion could be drawn from this graph?

• This person started saving with $80.

• This person saves $10 a week.

• This person saves $5 every 2 weeks.

• This person started saving with $30.

Which situation could match the graph?

• A five gallon bucket of water is leaking water. Each hour that passes it leaks one gallon of water and after 5 hours it has no more water.

• A five gallon bucket of water is being filled with water by a slow drip coming from the ceiling. Each hour the bucket fills with a gallon of water. After five hours the bucket is completely full.

• A five gallon tank is being filled with water from a water faucet. Each minute the tank fills with one gallon of water. After five hours the tank is filled.

• A five gallon tank is being drained with a gallon pitcher. Each minute the pitcher is filled and taken out. It takes a total of 5 minutes to completely drain the tank.

What conclusion could be drawn from this graph?

• Each marble weighs 20 grams.

• Each marble weighs 2 grams.

• The jar itself weighs more than 10 grams.

• 1 marble weighs 40 grams.

What conclusion could not be drawn from the graph?

• Every seed packet grows exactly 100 plants

• It takes 4 seed packets to grow 300 plants.

• Because this graph is proportional, if there are no seed packets there will be no plants.

• All of these are true statements.