Jed earns $21.75 per hour as a tutor.

Question

Using graph paper, draw a graph of the data. Should the points on the graph be connected? Why or why not?

Answer 1

The graph should have points connected because the data is continuous and represents Jed's earnings over time. Each point on the graph would represent Jed's earnings for a specific amount of time (e.g. earnings for one hour, two hours, three hours, etc.).

Here is a rough sketch of the graph:

Earnings
| |
$30 | *
| \
$25 | \
| \ *
$20 | \
| \
$15 | *
|
$10 |
|____________________
1 2 3 4
Hours

In the graph, the x-axis represents the number of hours worked by Jed and the y-axis represents the earnings in dollars. Each point on the graph should be connected to show the trend of Jed's earnings over time.