Graphics Interpretation - Bar and Line Graphs
This graph tracks the annual agricultural research funding, in millions of dollars, from both public and private sources.
From each drop-down menu, select the option that creates the most accurate statement based on the information provided.
In the early 2000s, agricultural research funding saw an increase from both public and private funding sources, with the [[dropdown1]] increase in private funding occurring between 2003 and 2004.
The largest total funding in one year was about $ [[dropdown2]] .
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[[snippet]]The smallest increase did not occur between 2003 and 2004. This would have been represented by a very flat line, with a slope close to zero. The slopes between 2002 and 2003, or the slopes between 2006 and 2007 are examples of years with small increases.
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[[snippet]]There were increases in funding in multiple years, so this interval cannot be the only increase in private funding.
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[[snippet]]This is the most spent from private funding sources. Do not forget to include the contribution from public funding sources.
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[[snippet]]Notice 11,000,000,000,000 is $11 trillion dollars, which is not the same as $11,000 million. Be careful with how many zeros are included in each choice.
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[[snippet]]This is the label for the data point corresponding to the highest amount of funding from private sources. For this blank, make sure you include the public funding and convert to the proper value in dollars.
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According to the left horizontal axis, the dollar amount for both funding sources is represented in millions of dollars. This means you need to take each value from the axis and multiply it by 1,000,000 to calculate the actual dollar amount.
In 2006, the label for public funding is a little more than 5,000, and the label for private funding is about 6,000. These values, after multiplying by 1,000,000, are a little more than $5 billion and about $6 billion, respectively. This means that the total is a little more than $11 billion, or $11,250,000,000.
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The private funding is represented by the line graph in this figure. To track the changes between years, you can Ballpark the slope of the line connecting pairs of years.
The slope connecting the years 2003 and 2004 is steeper than any other pair of years, which makes this interval the greatest change in private funding for consecutive years.
