Question

velvetleaf is a particularly annoying weed in cornfields. it produces lots of seeds, and the seeds wait in the soil for years until conditions are right for sprouting. how many seeds to velvetleaf plants produce? the histogram shows the counts from a random sample of 28 plants that came up in a cornfield when no herbicide was used.

Answer 1

The histogram shows that the majority of velvetleaf plants produced between 0 and 500 seeds. The highest count was 2,000 seeds, and the lowest count was 0 seeds. On average, velvetleaf plants produce around 500 seeds.