IXL | Create line plots with fractions

Chef Mueller teaches a cooking class to kids on the weekend. Last class, he showed his students a bowl of melted butter. He asked them, "How many sticks of butter do you think I melted in order to get this much melted butter?" He recorded their guesses on the board.

Amount of butter
Student	Sticks of butter
Annie	2
Greg	1 2
Lester	1
Todd	3 4
Daniel	3 4

Use the data in the table to complete the line plot below.

Click to select the X's. To clear a column, click on the number line below it.

Amount of butter

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Sticks of butter

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Danielle is a member of her school's nature club. The club members wanted to improve recycling habits at school. Danielle suggested a "reduce the trash" competition where the class with the least trash wins. For a week, the nature club kept track of how much trash each class created.

Amount of trash created
Class	Pounds
Mr. Powell's class	1 2
Ms. Bennett's class	1
Ms. Anderson's class	1 2
Mr. McCormick's class	0
Mr. Pratt's class	1 2
Mrs. Henson's class	0

Use the data in the table to complete the line plot below.

Click to select the X's. To clear a column, click on the number line below it.

Amount of trash created

number line label

Pounds

solution

First, order the data from least to greatest:

The smallest value is 0. Count how many times 0 appears in the list. It appears 2 times. Select 2 X's in the column labeled 0.

Amount of trash created

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Pounds

The next value is

Count how many times

appears in the list. It appears 3 times. Select 3 X's in the column labeled

Amount of trash created

number line label

Pounds

The last value is 1. Count how many times 1 appears in the list. It appears 1 time. Select 1 X in the column labeled 1.

Amount of trash created

number line label

Pounds

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