Question

A cooking school is teaching students how to make pasta noodles. The line plot displays how much flour each student used. How many total cups of flour did the students use to make the pasta?

Answer 1

`Total = 11(1)/(8)\ cups`

Explanation:

Given

See attachment for plot

Required

Total number of cups used

The number of dot on each dataset represent the number of student

So, to get the total number of cups, we simply add the product of the number of cups and the number of student for each data item

So, we have:

`Total = (1)/(8) * 6 + (1)/(4) * 5 + (3)/(8) * 2 + (1)/(2)*0 + (5)/(8) * 4 + (3)/(4) * 2 + (7)/(8) * 5`

`Total = (6)/(8) + (5)/(4) + (6)/(8) + 0+ (20)/(8) + (6)/(4) + (35)/(8)`

Solve

`Total = (6+10+6+0+20+12+35)/(8)`

`Total = (89)/(8)`

`Total = 11(1)/(8)\ cups`