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World's Best Shoppers!
Materials: calculator,
grid paper for making graphs
Work alone or in a group of two or three.
Would you guess that the United States has the most stores of any country in the world? If so, you would be wrong. China is the country with the most stores. The table below shows the ten countries in the world that have the most stores as of 2000. The table also gives the 2000 population of each of the countries listed.
| Country |
Number
of Stores (2000) |
Population
(2000) |
| 1. China |
19,306,800 |
1,261,832,000 |
| 2.
India |
10,537,080 |
1,014,004,000 |
| 3.
Brazil |
1,595,062 |
172,860,000 |
| 4.
Japan |
1,240,237 |
126,550,000 |
| 5.
Mexico |
1,087,995 |
100,350,000 |
| 6. Spain |
780,247 |
39,997,000 |
| 7.
Vietnam |
727,268 |
78,774,000 |
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8. South Korea |
704,032 |
47,471,000 |
| 9.
Italy |
697,853 |
57,634,000 |
| 10. United
States |
685,367 |
275,563,000 |
Procedure for the Activity
| Step 1 |
Round the number
of stores for each country to the nearest hundred thousand. Make
a horizontal bar graph that shows the number of stores for each country.
(See a sample horizontal bar graph on page 16 of your textbook.)
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| Step 2 |
In the graph you
made in Step 1, suppose a segment was drawn along the top of each
bar. Which countries would have segments that are congruent? Explain.
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| Step 3 |
Use the data in the
table to find the average number of people per store for each country.
(Do not round any of the values.) For example, what is the average
number of people per store in China? Round each average to the nearest
whole number.
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| Step 4 |
Make a horizontal
bar graph that shows the average number of people per store for the
ten countries.
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| Step 5 |
In the graph you made
in Step 4, suppose a segment was drawn along the top of each bar.
Which countries would have segments that are congruent? Explain.
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Wrapping Up the Activity
Describe what you discovered about the number of
people per store for the ten given countries. Make a conjecture about
the types of countries that have the fewest people per store. Write
a paragraph justifying your conjecture.
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