Question

You asked students the survey question: How many hours did you do homework last week? The responses were 3, 10, 5, 7, 4, 8, 3, 5, 4, and 2 hours. Which statement best represents the data?


1. Most of the friends who responded did homework for 5 or fewer hours last week.
2. Most of the friends who responded did homework for more than 8 hours last week.
3. Most of the friends who responded did homework for 6 or more hours last week.
4. Exactly half of the friends who responded did homework for fewer than 6 hours last week.

Answer 1

The first statement best represents this data. 7 out of 10 students did their homework for 5 or fewer hours last week.

Answer 2

1.

If you write it out in order of smallest number to largest number, you can count that only 3 people out of the ten total did over 5 hours of homework