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Question 4: PENGUINS
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After he gets home from his trip, Jean Baptiste has a look on the Internet to see how
many chicks a penguin couple raise on average.
He finds the following bar chart for the three penguin
types Gentoo, Rockhopper and
Magellanic.
Annual number of penguin chicks raised per penguin couple
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Year
0
0.8
0.2
0.4
0.6
1.0
1.2
Gentoo
Rockhopper
Magellanic
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Based
on the chart above, are the following statements about these
three penguin
types true or false?
Circle “True” or “False” for each statement.
