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Summer Jobs: Patterns in Time and Pay
Explore center, spread, and shape through summer-job data about lawn-mowing times, babysitting sessions, and earnings.
Grade 6MathInteractive · Printable
Aligned to6.SP.A.2
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- Single worksheet
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- 1 Common Core standard
- Printable answer key
- 14 questions
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- Format
- Interactive · Printable
- Grade
- Grade 6
- Subject
- Math
- Question types
- Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer
About this worksheet
What students practice
- Students describe the center, spread, and overall shape of summer-job data distributions.
- Students compare distributions with the same center but different spreads.
- Students use distribution features to interpret time and earnings in summer-job situations.
How to use
Use after introducing center, spread, and distribution shape. Have students refer to the displays when justifying their conclusions.
Curriculum
Common Core standard covered
Understand that a set of data has a distribution that can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
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Summer Jobs: Patterns in Time and Pay
Describe lawn-mowing and babysitting data using center, spread, and shape.
Lawn-Mowing Times
Use the table for questions 1–5. Each lawn was mowed once. The median is the middle value in an ordered data set; the range is the greatest value minus the least.
| Time (minutes) | Number of lawns |
|---|---|
| 30 | 1 |
| 35 | 2 |
| 40 | 3 |
| 45 | 2 |
| 50 | 1 |
- A. The median is 50 minutes.
- B. The median is 40 minutes.
- C. The median is 35 minutes.
- D. The median is 45 minutes.
What is the range of the mowing times? minutes
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