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finding trends and patterns
summary
this lesson focuses on identifying patterns and trends in data, a skill critical for success on the act science test, which constitutes about 50% of the questions.
- understanding how to interpret data, patterns, and trends is crucial for approximately 50% of the questions on the act science test.
- the lesson emphasizes the importance of accurately reading graphs and tables, noting that all act charts and graphs will be in black and white, which can affect readability.
- examples illustrate how to determine whether tanks are being filled, emptied, or held constant, and how to extrapolate or interpolate data points.
- direct and inverse variation concepts are reviewed, highlighting their application in predicting relationships between variables.
- the process of elimination is recommended when creating or choosing graphs that accurately reflect given data, with a reminder that sometimes data may not follow a discernible pattern.
chapters
00:00
identifying patterns and trends
00:35
interpreting graphs and tables
05:01
extrapolating and interpolating data
05:36
understanding direct and inverse variation
