There are three ways that you can do the following activity. You can either give the students the chart with the no data or with missing data and have them research it themselves using the links provided or allow them to do the analysis from the complete table. The chart on the student page is blank. The conversion section is for the cost in 1999 dollars. The complete student pages are below at the bottom of the student pages are some additional resources.
Earthquakes are a way of life in California.
Discuss within a group what the two quotes mean to you. Find the mean, median, and mode for the magnitudes. Go back to the original chart and figure out how much the damage is worth after the conversion factor. Graphs and Charts Make two bar graphs, one representing the magnitude of the earthquake to the damage amounts without the conversion factors and the second one with the conversion factors. Try to draw a line of best fit on the scatter plot.