BOOSTER WORKBOOK

Statistics S2bSolve comparison and

difference problems using line graphs

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degrees

Abbie takes the temperature outside at midday on thefirst day of each month.

The graph shows her results from January to December.

How many months on the graph show a temperaturebetween 10°C and 20°C?

Find the difference in temperature shown on the graphbetween July and August.

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1 mark

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1 mark

This graph shows the cost of phone callsin the daytime and in the evening.

How much does it cost to make a 9 minute call in the daytime?

How much more does it cost to make a 6 minute call inthe daytime than in the evening?

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p

1 mark

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152 Class 6 count how many seeds they find under two trees.

They show the data in a graph.

weeks

In how many weeks did they find more than 40 chestnut seeds?

seeds

How many seeds did they find in week 3 altogether?

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Week

20

40

60

80

Seeds

oak

chestnut

1 mark

1 mark

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This graph shows the height of a balloon at different times.

seconds

Use the graph to find how long it took the balloon to rise from 30 metres to 60 metres.

m

From the graph, find the height of the balloon at 50 seconds.

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Time in seconds

Height inmetres

50 60 70 80

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1 mark

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This graph shows how the weight of a baby changed overtwelve months.

From the graph, what was the weight of the baby at 10 months?

How much more did the baby weigh at 5 months than at birth?

kg

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1 mark

kg

1 mark

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This graph shows the temperature in a greenhouse.

4pm0

1pm 2pm

Time

Temperaturein °C

3pm

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20

30

40

Use the graph to find the time when the temperature was 25°C.

1 mark

Use the graph to fi nd the difference between the temperature at 2pm and the temperature at 4pm.

degrees

1 mark

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This graph shows the height of a candle as it burns.

Height ofcandlein cm

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Hours

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Look at the graph.

What is the height of the candle after 2 hours?

cm

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How long does the candle take to burn down from 16cm to 4cm?

1 mark

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Time in minutes

minutes

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A hot liquid is left to cool in a science experiment.

This graph shows how the temperature of the liquidchanges as it cools.

Read from the graph how many minutes it takes for thetemperature to reach 40OC

Read from the graph how many minutes the temperatureis above 60OC

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