name species age pounds

"Sasha"

"cat"

1

6.5

"Boo-boo"

"dog"

11

12.3

"Felix"

"cat"

16

9.2

"Nori"

"dog"

6

35.3

"Wade"

"cat"

1

3.2

"Nibblet"

"rabbit"

6

4.3

"Maple"

"dog"

3

51.6

The two data visualizations below both summarize columns of this table. In some ways they are similar. In other ways they are quite different!

Bar Chart Histogram

bar chart with 3 columns: cat (3), dog (3), rabbit (1). There is a space between each of the bars.

bar chart with 3 columns: cat (3), dog (3), rabbit (1). There is a space between each of the bars.

1 What type of data is displayed?

2 Could we rearrange the order of the bars?

3 Does having a sense that the bars are taller on the left than the right tell us anything about the dataset as a whole?

What else do you Notice? What else do you Wonder?

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