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Grasshopper Lengths

Use the information in the line plots on the previous page to solve the following problems. Show your work. (Range is the difference between the highest and lowest values of the data.)

• 1

  • a. What is the range of the clear-winged grasshopper data?

  • b. What is the range of the two-striped grasshopper data?

  • c. Which range is greater? How much greater?

• 2 If all the 1 3 4 1 , and 3 fourths -inch grasshoppers were lined up end to end, how long would they be?

• 3 If the 3 4 3 fourths -inch two-striped grasshopper and the 1 1 8 1 , and 1 eighth -inch clear-winged grasshoppers were lined up end to end, how long would they be?

• 4 Which is longer, the longest clear-winged grasshopper or the longest two-striped grasshopper? How much longer?

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