Question

A snowstorm took place during the weekend. Meteorologists tracked the total amount of snowfall for the storm on a graph. The x-axis will represent time in hours, and the y-axis will represent the total snowfall. For the first 2 hours, it snowed at a rate of 1 inch per hour. The snow stopped for an hour and a half, then resumed at a rate of 1.5 inches per hour for the next 3 hours. Based on this information, what scale would work best for representing the data on the y-axis?(1 point)
Responses

2
2

5
5

3
3

0.5

Answer 1

0.5

Reason: total snowfall ends at 6.5 inches (2 + 4.5), so a 0.5-inch scale lets you mark and read half-inch values (0, 0.5, 1.0, …, 6.5) accurately.