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ACTIVITY:
Developing an Experiment
Work with a partner.
a. Design and make a paper airplane from a single sheet of
1
—
8
-by-11-inch paper.
2
Sample:
1.
Fold in half.
3.
Fold corners
2.
Fold corners.
Then unfold.
again.
5.
Fold wings out
on both sides.
6.
Fold wing edges
up.
4.
Fold in half.
b. Fly the airplane 20 times. Keep track of the distance fl own each time.
c. Organize your results in a tally chart and a graph. What is the mean
distance fl own by the airplane?
4.
IN YOUR OWN WORDS
How can you use tables and graphs to help
organize data? Give examples of careers in which the organization of
data is important.
Use what you learned about organizing data to complete
Exercises 4 and 5 on page 226.
Section 5.6
Analyzing Data Sets
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