Discus results

This task is about reading information from a graph.
At the school athletics day 50 students entered a discus throwing competition. The graph shows the length of their throws.
graph of the distance of discus throws

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a)  How many students threw the discus
i)  less than 20 metres?
ii)  from 30 to 39 metres?

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b) What percentage of students threw the discus
i)  40 metres or more?  %
ii)  from 20 to 29 metres?  %

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c)  Explain why you cannot tell from the graph the distance of the longest throw.

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d)  What are two problems with the way this histogram has been set up?
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