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A histogram labeled Snowfall in inches on the horizontal axis scaled in equal segments of 5 from 0 to 30.  Number of Years is labeled on the vertical axis scaled by ones from 0 to 6. Starting at the left each segment has the following bar heights: 1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 3.Use the histogram at right to answer the following questions. The histogram contains the amount of snowfall in Urbana, IL during winter from 1990 – 2009.

  1. Which range of snowfall measurements occurred most often?

    Which bar is the tallest?

  2. Were there any years with unusually high or low snowfall amounts?

    How many years experienced the lowest amount of snowfall? How many years experienced the largest amount of snowfall?

  3. Half of the years had snowfall amounts at or above how many inches?

    Add up the heights of all the bars. How many years are shown in this histogram?

    20 years are shown here. Now, start from the right and count down until you reach half of 20, which is 10.

    About half of the years had snowfall at or above 15 inches.