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By the end of this activity you will be able to: interpret data in order to answer questions

Study the facts carefully and then answer the questions below.

Beluga – 15 feet
Blue – 110 feet
Gray – 45 feet
Humpback – 52 feet
Minke – 30 feet
Orca – 27 feet
Sperm – 60 feet

What is the length of the longest whale?
Which whale is 25 feet longer than the Orca?
A human child is about four feet tall. How many times longer is the Sperm whale than a human child?
What is the difference in length between the Beluga whale and the Blue whale?
Which whale is closest to the average (mean) length?
What is the average length to the nearest foot of the whales in this list?
Which species of whale is the shortest?
Which whale is double the length of the Minke whale?
Which whale is four times longer than the Beluga whale?
What is the combined length of the three longest whales?

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