1 According to the table, the ride goes from lowest pointfeet to highest pointfeet in minutes

2 It then returns to the lowest point minutes later.

3 Once it gets going, the ride does a full cycle from high-point to high-point (or low-point to low-point!) in minutes.

4 The altitude right between the highest and lowest point is feet. Draw this as a dashed line on your graph.

5 Plot each of the points in the table (left) on the coordinate plane (right) to create scatter plot.

time (minutes) altitude (feet)

0

5.0

5

55.0

10

154.9

15

205.0

20

155.2

25

55.2

30

5.0

35

54.7

40

154.6

45

205.0

50

155.5

55

55.5

60

5.0

An empty scatter plot with time on the x-axis and altitude on the y-axis

6 What do you Notice about the data in the table?

7 What do you Wonder?

8 Working from left to right, connect the dots one pair at a time using straight lines. This will create a display known as a line-graph.

9 Describe the relationship you see between time and altitude. (Is it linear, quadratic, exponential, etc.?)

10 What kind of ride do you think your teacher was on, and why?

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