Choose one of the graphs below and create a story explaining the graph. You must explain which graph you chose, include an appropriate title for the graph, establish an independent and dependent variable (explain in terms of “this depends on this”), and tell a story that relates both variables to the trend shown on the graph. You CANNOT use any previous stories that we have used in our notes or ACE problems. Make this an original story! This posting needs to be REALISTIC and detailed! Check your spelling and grammar. It is VERY possible that this will be a level 2 grade!
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At school every single day students enter Mrs. Ryon’s classroom, stay in the classroom, and then leave the classroom. The number of students in the classroom depends on the time. In graph three the x- axis represents time, which is the independent variable and the y- axis represents the number of students in Mrs. Ryon’s classroom, which is the dependent variable. When the bell rings the students leave their fourth period class and go up the stairs to math. Some kids get to class a little later than others, so the number of students steadily increases as time passes. When all of the students have entered the classroom, they stay in the classroom until the next bell rings. Some students take longer to pack up their stuff than others, so the number of students steadily decreases. After I label the x and y axes I will give the graph the title of “The Number of Students in Mrs. Ryon’s classroom.”
The Coppell football games draw many spectators. A number of the spectators buy snacks at the concession stand. Before the game starts, a few fans buy snacks. Once the games begin, no one goes to the concession stand. At half -time, a lot of people hurry and go buy snacks at the concession stand. When Half-time ends everyone goes quickly back to the stands to watch the football game. When the game ends very few people buy anything to eat and everyone else goes home. I chose graph number 1 for my story. The x- axis represents the time in the game. The y -axis represents the amount of people buying snacks. So, the amount of people buying snacks depends on the time in the game. The title of this graph would be, “Snacks bought at a concession stand during a football game”.
(Graph 5) You walk into a gym. As you start to stretch and warm up, you're heart rate increases steadily. You then move on to the aerobic machine for 20 minutes, going at a constant speed. During the last part of your work out, you push yourself extremely hard, trying to get your heart rate up to the maximum level for 15-20 minutes to increase your stamina and exercise level.
The x-axis would be time (mins) and the y-axis would be heart rate. Therefore, the heart rate depends on the amount of time (mins) spent working out. You warm up, stay at the same pace to keep your heart rate the same, then push yourself to quickly increase your heart rate to the maximum level. When you're walking/warming up, your heart rate doesn't increase very quickly. When you start aerobics and go at a constant speed, your heart rate stays the same. When you start to push yourself, it increases quickly. A title for this could be Heart Rate While Working Out.
If I had to write a story based upon a graph I would write about a typical school day. First I would title it typical school day. Then I would say that time would be on the x-axis and distance from house would be on the y-axis. I would then go to school. Then I would go through the school day going from class to class. Then school would be over and I would go home. When I would go to school that would represent an almost vertical line increasing at a steady rate. Then I would go through the school day which would represent a straight line over a long time. Then when school would be over I would go home which would mean that that would represent another almost vertical line decreasing at a stedy rate. If I had to choose one graph above I would choose graph 3 because it looks the exact same as the description I made.
At soccer practice, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays at the fields all the parents come and stay to watch there kids practice.Well sometimes they can't make the practice because of what the day is. Say if it is Tuesday and I am out of the state I won't be able to go to practice.But, the nomal schedule is once the pactice starts parents drop there kids off at the exact same time, (in this case)sta until the practice is over, then once the practice is over everyone goes home.(at the exact same time) The graph I am describing is graph three.It shows everyone showing up, waiting until practice is over then leaving. In this description the day of the practice depends on how many people show up. As time goes on it shows parents dropping off, staying, then leaving again.
(Graph 3) In Graph 3 it shows that the y axis (independent variable) increases a little at a steady pace, stays put for a while, then decreases at steady pace back down to where it began.
When Madison was a little child, she collected Beanie Babies. As Madison got older and reached the age of 8, they began to be less popular. Madison then packaged her Beanie Babies up and put them in the attic for 10 years. At age 18 Madison goes to clean out the attic and finds her Beanie Babies. Madison came across on EBay that someone is collecting Beanie Babies and if anyone has some, they said they would pay to take them off your hands. Madison once again packaged her Beanie Babies up and sold them to the bidder.
In this story the x-axis, independent variable, is age. The y-axis, dependent variable, is number of Beanie Babies collected. Therefore, the number of Beanie Babies depends on Madison’s age. A title for this graph could be something like Number of Beanie Babies as Madison Grows Up.
(graph #3) Jim was pacing him self on the track.
Jim ran slow and thenran up to a consistent rate for all of the 3 hrs he ran (hrs independent)then he finaly slowed down and ended his tracking the over the corse of the three hrs he ran 15 miles for the consistent rate on the graph and miles is the dependent.
My graph is Graph #1. The title is "Electronic Helicopter Sales". The dependent variable, on the y-axis, is the sales of the helicopter. The independent variable is on the x-axis, and is time. A company started selling several small helicopters. The helicopters stopped working within a week, so they stopped selling them and fixed the problem. The helicopter started selling so much in 1 month that it got high on the charts, but soon they stopped working again. People returned all the helicopters, which dropped the charts very low over a week. They stopped selling to fix them, but people didn't buy them when they came out again. The business went bankrupt. As the time changes, the sales change also, depending on how long the helicopter works.
Graph 3 would work for this story. At an airport, airplanes are sent across the country to send people where they need to go. They go up in the air, stay in the air, and then go back down to the ground. The time it takes to get in the air depends on the speed. The x-axis is the time, the y-axis is speed. So it takes a while to get into the air so it increases. Then they are in the air for a while and stay a horizontal line. Last they go back down to the ground and it decreases. Now the title for this story could be In the Air.
Graph number 3 represents an icecream shop very well.Bethany’s Icecream shop graphs how much icecream cones they sell each month. In January-April, they don’t sell that much. But each month, the number of icecream cones they sell increases as the first four months go on. From May through August , they sell the most icecream cones probably because these are the hottest months of the year and people want something cold to eat in the summer! From September to December, the total number of icecream cones that they sell each month slowly starts to decrease due to the cold weather, and people want something hot, not icecream which is cold! The number of icecream cones they sell, depends on what month it is and their weather, so that means that the icecream cones sold would go on the Y axis since it is the dependent variable and the month would go on the X axis because it is independent. Bethany’s Icecream Shop Sells Each Month would be a good title for this graph. Graph 3 best represents this graph!
If I were to write a story about one graph I would choose graph 3. Graph 3 would represent the speed of an airplane. I would show how airplanes take off, stay in the air, then land. The x-axis would represent time, and the y- axis would represent speed. As an airplane takes off from an airport, it speed has to increase to get into the air. So, the steady increase in the beginning of graph 3 represents the airplane taking off. Then, once the airplane gets into the air, it has a steady speed for the whole time it’s flying to its destination. The horizontal line represents the consistent speed the airplane has in the air. Then, when an airplane has to land, the speed has to decrease so it can land without crashing. Therefore, the steady decrease at the end represents the plane landing. This means that the speed depends on the time because of when you have to decrease in speed and when you have to increase in speed, which takes time. So, as time moves on the speed steadily increases, then stays the same for a while, then steadily decreases.
Once there was a bakery called Paula’s Bakery. A lot of people worked there, but the problem was it was Homecoming weekend and the bakery was full. Friday was busy until they closed, Saturday the cake and cupcake sale was the same, Sunday we were busy again all day. The bakery made a lot of money that weekend. If I was going to pick a graph it would pick Graph:5 my title would be a weekend at the bakery and the X-axis and Y-axis is Money and the Time of the weekend.
Graph number 3 shows the points a football team scored in the course of about ten minutes. In my graph, a football player scores a 99 yard touchdown. But, the coach of the other challenges the play. He thinks that his knee touched the ground, but the running back thought that he was right and he had a clear road to the end zone. It took a couple of minutes for the referees to decide who was right, the other teams coach, or the running back. Finally, the referees decided that the coach was right, not the running back. So the referees called back the touchdown. So, the time would be on the x-axis and the number of points would be on the y-axis. This would happen because the number of points depends on the time. I chose graph three because in this time period, they score, wait a little, and then they get it called back so really they didn’t score.
(Graph 2) The amount of kids represents the y-axis (independent variable) and the time represents the x-axis (independent variable). In this story the best title would be kids in a party.
On Saturday night Jacob was bored so he called some friends over to throw a party, but gradually the party got bigger and bigger. Then all of a sudden thanks to bob 10 people showed up all at once and then Jacob locked the house so the house wouldn’t be that crowded and that was everyone. For about an hour they had this great party then the people that bob invited left, and soon after that the party started to end with people leaving. After partly cleaning the house Jacob left his own house to find a new place to throw the after party.
(graph 1)the time is on the X-axis and the amount of people is they-axis. the best title would be "number of people in a store.
On A sunday Morning A store is getting ready for a sale. At 6 in the morning a few people come and they stay until 9 am then as time increases, the store is compleatly out of merchendise and they all leave except for some people who take the rest of the stuff. then they all leave and the store is closed.
When you take a test in school there are a certain number of questions and you are usually given the time limit of one class period. For graph 5 the variable on the x-axis would be time because you are given a set amount of time to complete the test. Time would also be on the x-axis because time doesn’t depend on anything which would make it the dependent variable which always goes on the x-axis. The y-axis for graph 5 would be the number of questions because when you get a test there is a certain number of questions that you must complete. Another reason that the number of questions would go on the y-axis is because the number of questions that you can do depends on the amount of time that you have to complete the questions. This means that the number of questions completed depends on time. A good title for the situation on this graph would be “number of questions completed over a certain amount of time“. For graph 5 the trend that it’s showing is an increase, and then it stays the same for a certain amount of time before continuing at a steady increase again. For this situation the first increase in the graph would show someone completing a certain amount of questions at a steady rate. The next part of the graph shows the person stopping on one question for a while, him trying to figure out the answer to that particular question. The third part of graph 5 shows that person figuring out the answer and then continuing with the rest of the questions on the test at a steady rate.
Shelly’s swimwear was a popular place to go in the spring time. The swimwear sales increased as the summer approached. They reached the highest point in the beginning of the summer. Then during the fall the sales started declining. In the winter the sales of her swim suits decreased to a low level until warm weather approached again. The number of sales is directly affected by the season. The warmer the season is, the higher the sales. I am using this example to explain graph 1.
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Shelly’s swimwear was a popular place to go in the spring time. The swimwear sales increased as the summer approached. They reached the highest point in the beginning of the summer. Then during the fall the sales started declining. In the winter the sales of her swim suits decreased to a low level until warm weather approached again. The number of sales is directly affected by the season. The warmer the season is, the higher the sales. I am using this example to explain graph 1.
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