Heights of Hal's Plants
For 8-9, use the line plot at the right.
8. MP2 Reasoning Based on the line plot, how
many more plants are less than 3 inches than are
greater than 32 inches? Explain.
3
3
3
Inches
3 3
4
9. Higher Order Thinking Write a question that can
be answered by using the line plot, and then give
the answer.
© Common Core Assessment
For 10-11. use the line plot at the right.

Many newspapers carry a certain puzzle in which the reader must unscramble letters to form words. how many ways can the letters of emdangl be arranged? identify the correct unscrambling, then determine the probability of getting that result by randomly selecting one arrangement of the given letters.

Each of the following data sets has a mean of x = 10. (i) 8 9 10 11 12 (ii) 7 9 10 11 13 (iii) 7 8 10 12 13 (a) without doing any computations, order the data sets according to increasing value of standard deviations. (i), (iii), (ii) (ii), (i), (iii) (iii), (i), (ii) (iii), (ii), (i) (i), (ii), (iii) (ii), (iii), (i) (b) why do you expect the difference in standard deviations between data sets (i) and (ii) to be greater than the difference in standard deviations between data sets (ii) and (iii)? hint: consider how much the data in the respective sets differ from the mean. the data change between data sets (i) and (ii) increased the squared difference îł(x - x)2 by more than data sets (ii) and (iii). the data change between data sets (ii) and (iii) increased the squared difference îł(x - x)2 by more than data sets (i) and (ii). the data change between data sets (i) and (ii) decreased the squared difference îł(x - x)2 by more than data sets (ii) and (iii). none of the above

Atruck can be rented from company a $50 a day plus $0.60 per mile. company b charges $20 a day plus $0.80 per mile to rent the same truck. find the number of miles in a day at which the rental costs for company a and company b are the same