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Dot plot worksheet for Algebra 1

In Algebra 1 dot plots are a quick picture of a small data set, and the questions ask for its center and spread (mean, median, mode and range), how many values meet a condition, and how two plots compare. Read each stack as one value repeated, then work exactly as you would with the list written out.

Also taught in Pre-Algebra and Statistics, each at its own level and with its own examples.

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Use the dot plot to answer each question.

  1. Find the mean from a dot plot

    Look at the dot plot of the number of baskets each player made at practice. What is the mean?23456
  2. What is the mean of the data? The dot plot shows the number of books each student read over the summer.12345
  3. Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the mean.34567
  4. Each dot in the plot is one value from the hours of sleep each camper got last night. What is the mean?45678

  1. Find the median from a dot plot

    Use the dot plot of the points a player scored in each game to find the median.789101112
  2. Find the median of the shoe sizes of the students in a class, shown in the dot plot.67891011
  3. A dot plot records the number of pages each student read last night. Determine the median of the data.67891011
  4. Find the median of the number of runs a baseball team scored in each game, shown in the dot plot.8910111213

  1. Find the mode from a dot plot

    Each dot in the plot is one value from the number of laps each swimmer finished in practice. What is the mode?10111213141516
  2. The dot plot shows the number of questions each student got right on a 20-question test. Find the mode.11121314151617
  3. Find the mode of the number of birds counted at a feeder each morning, shown in the dot plot.11121314151617

  1. Find the range from a dot plot

    Read the dot plot of the hours each student practiced an instrument this week and give the range.1234567
  2. A dot plot records the number of cans each class brought for a food drive. Determine the range of the data.12345678
  3. Look at the dot plot of the scores on a 20-point quiz. What is the range?456789101112

  1. Count values that meet a condition

    The dot plot shows goals scored in 10 games. What percent of the games had 9 or more goals?34567891011
  2. The dot plot shows goals scored in 16 games. What percent of the games had less than 11 goals?67891011121314
  3. The dot plot shows goals scored in 20 games. How many games had less than 12 goals?8910111213141516

  1. Compare two dot plots

    Group A is the top dot plot and Group B the bottom one. They show the ages of the swimmers in two clubs. Compare the medians. Which group’s is greater?A78910111213141516B78910111213141516
  2. The dot plots show the number of books each student read over the summer, for Group A and Group B. Which group has the greater range?B3456789101112A3456789101112
  3. Two groups are compared: the plots show the lengths of fish caught, in inches, with Group B on top. Which group’s data have the larger median?B78910111213141516A78910111213141516

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Dot PlotsAnswer keyVersion 2

Date Period

Use the dot plot to answer each question.

  1. Find the mean from a dot plot

    Look at the dot plot of the number of baskets each player made at practice. What is the mean?234564
  2. What is the mean of the data? The dot plot shows the number of books each student read over the summer.123453
  3. Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the mean.345675
  4. Each dot in the plot is one value from the hours of sleep each camper got last night. What is the mean?456786

  1. Find the median from a dot plot

    Use the dot plot of the points a player scored in each game to find the median.78910111210
  2. Find the median of the shoe sizes of the students in a class, shown in the dot plot.678910119
  3. A dot plot records the number of pages each student read last night. Determine the median of the data.678910118.5
  4. Find the median of the number of runs a baseball team scored in each game, shown in the dot plot.891011121311

  1. Find the mode from a dot plot

    Each dot in the plot is one value from the number of laps each swimmer finished in practice. What is the mode?1011121314151614
  2. The dot plot shows the number of questions each student got right on a 20-question test. Find the mode.1112131415161715
  3. Find the mode of the number of birds counted at a feeder each morning, shown in the dot plot.1112131415161712

  1. Find the range from a dot plot

    Read the dot plot of the hours each student practiced an instrument this week and give the range.12345676
  2. A dot plot records the number of cans each class brought for a food drive. Determine the range of the data.123456787
  3. Look at the dot plot of the scores on a 20-point quiz. What is the range?4567891011127

  1. Count values that meet a condition

    The dot plot shows goals scored in 10 games. What percent of the games had 9 or more goals?3456789101130%
  2. The dot plot shows goals scored in 16 games. What percent of the games had less than 11 goals?6789101112131450%
  3. The dot plot shows goals scored in 20 games. How many games had less than 12 goals?89101112131415168

  1. Compare two dot plots

    Group A is the top dot plot and Group B the bottom one. They show the ages of the swimmers in two clubs. Compare the medians. Which group’s is greater?A78910111213141516B78910111213141516Group B: median 15 vs 12
  2. The dot plots show the number of books each student read over the summer, for Group A and Group B. Which group has the greater range?B3456789101112A3456789101112Group A: range 4 vs 3
  3. Two groups are compared: the plots show the lengths of fish caught, in inches, with Group B on top. Which group’s data have the larger median?B78910111213141516A78910111213141516Group A: median 11 vs 9

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How to do these

A dot plot has 2 dots over 1, 3 over 2, 4 over 3 and 1 over 4. Find the mean.

  1. There are 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 = 10 dots.
  2. The total is 2(1) + 3(2) + 4(3) + 1(4) = 24.
  3. Mean = 24 ÷ 10.

The answer is 2.4.

Where students go wrong

Taking the median from the middle of the number line instead of the middle dot. With 10 dots the median is the average of the 5th and 6th dots counted from the left, wherever they sit on the scale.

Also called line plot, dot plot worksheet or reading a dot plot.

What you can put on this worksheet

The mean
Read the dot plot of the number of stickers each child collected and give the mean. — a dot plot from 2 to 6 → 4
The median
Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the median. — a dot plot from 3 to 7 → 4
The mode
Read the dot plot of the number of pets each family on a street owns and give the mode. — a dot plot from 3 to 7 → 4
The range
Read the dot plot of the number of stickers each child collected and give the range. — a dot plot from 3 to 10 → 7
The interquartile range
Use the dot plot of the number of books each member of a reading club finished. Find Q3−Q1. For quartiles, split the data at the median, and leave the median out of both halves when the count is odd. → 5
Make a dot plot from data
Make a dot plot of the data: 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 9, 8, 7, 7, 6 — a dot plot from 3 to 9 → 5 (1), 6 (4), 7 (3), 8 (1), 9 (1)
How many or what percent meet a condition
The dot plot shows goals scored in 12 games. How many games had less than 9 goals? — a dot plot from 6 to 12 → 1
Compare two dot plots
Each dot is one value: the number of push-ups each student did in a minute, for Group A (top) and Group B (bottom). Which group’s data have the larger median? → Group B: median 13 vs 9

Questions about these worksheets

Yes. Every dot plot sheet is free to print and free to download as a PDF. There is no account to make, no email to hand over and no limit on how many you take.

Yes. The answer key prints on a second page, and you can choose whether it shows each question beside its answer or just the answers in a list.

Yes. Print straight from the page, or download the PDF and print that. The sheet is laid out for paper rather than squeezed off a screen, so there is room to work under each question, and the answer key comes out on its own page.

Algebra 1 is usually taken around 8th or 9th grade, though schools vary and plenty of students meet it earlier or later. Pick the difficulty rather than the grade: the easy level suits a first lesson on it, the hard level suits review before a test.

Yes, as many as you like. The questions are built fresh each time rather than picked from a fixed set of files, so pressing Generate gives a new sheet. That is what you want for a second class, a retake, or two students sitting next to each other.

That is the closest comparison, and Kuta Software is good software. It is also paid software you install on a computer. These worksheets run in a browser tab for free, with no account and nothing to install. Like Kuta, the dot plot questions are generated when you ask for them rather than pulled from a fixed set of files, so two classes never get the same sheet, and the answer key comes with it.

Yes. There are three levels, and you can tick more than one for a sheet that mixes them, in which case the questions come out easiest first. The harder levels are not just larger numbers: they ask for something the easy ones do not.

You pick from 8: the mean, the median, the mode, the range, the interquartile range, make a dot plot from data, how many or what percent meet a condition and compare two dot plots. Tick as many as you want and set how many of each, or let it spread them evenly.

Reading the height of a stack as the value. The height is how many times it happened; the value is the number underneath it.