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Question 5b

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Each of the students in a class voted for his or her favourite sport. The bar graph below shows the result. Each of the statements below is either, true, false or not possible to tell from the information given. For each statement, put a tick ( ) to indicate your answer. Half of the boys in the class chose basketball as their favourite sport. (2 marks)

Question 5b diagram

Answer: False

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table tennis boys → 2

swimming boys → 8

baseball boys → 2

basketball boys → 11

total boys → 2 + 8 + 2 + 11 = 23

half of boys → 23 ÷ 2 = 11.5

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