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Task Prompt
Pretend that you are a weather announcer for a TV station  WETV in Oswego, New York.  It is the end of the month of April , and you are preparing your broad cast for the evening news.  At the end of each month , you report to your viewers the amount of precipitation that was received in the month and compare it to the precipitation in other recent years.  Throughout the month, you have kept a record of the precipitation.  You also have to dip into your files to find the data concerning the April precipitation from the past four years.
April 2002 Precipitation Log
Date     In.         Date      In.
4/4        0.2        4/16      0.9
4/8        0.25      4/17      0.25
4/9        0.5        4/22      0.75
4/10      0.3        4/23      0.73
4/14      0.45      4/24      0.64
4/15      0.85      4/30      0.33
April Precipitation Log
Year     In.       Year       In.
1998     5.45    2000    3.85
1999     4.12    2001     2.95
A. Use the data from April 2001 to calculate the total precipitation for the month.

B. On the days that there was precipitation in April 2001, what was the range of the precipitation amounts? The median? The mode? The mean?

C. Use the data from the previous years, along with the calculations from April 2001, to make a bar graph demonstrating the difference in April precipitation throughout the 5 years.

D. Take your data and prepare a weather broadcast.  Your audience will be the television viewers of Oswego, NY.  Your broadcast must be at least 3 minutes in length and you must be prepared to be video taped.  Therefore you must dress up as a weather person.  Props are a must!
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