Practice: Interpret a distribution

Chicken drinking water

Figure 4. The Colonel tracks water consumption for each chicken in his flock.

The Colonel measured daily water consumption for 30 chickens in his flock. Use the frequency distribution below to answer the following questions.

Number of Chickens 0 4 8 12 Daily Water Consumption (mL) 150-175 175-200 200-225 225-250 250-275 275-300

Figure 5. Frequency distribution of daily water consumption across 30 chickens. Each bar indicates how many chickens consumed water within that range.

Question 1: Number of peaks

Which statement best describes the number of peaks in the frequency distribution?

Question 2: Shape

Which statement better describes the shape of the frequency distribution?