Problem
The grape column has 4 circles, so 4 students like grapes.
Each circle represents one student, so counting the circles drawn in a column gives that fruit's count directly.
2.MD.D.10Organize Information In More WaysTotal 18 minus apple 5, banana 3, and grape 4 leaves tangerine 6.
The total 18 is exactly the four fruit counts added together, so the tangerine count is sitting inside it too. Subtracting the three known counts (5, 3, 4) undoes that addition and leaves only tangerines.
2.OA.A.1Identify SubproblemsThe number of tangerine students is the class total minus the three fruit counts we already know: .
To fill the blank tangerine cell we take the total of 18 and remove the counts we already have, and what is left is the tangerine count.
The whole class of 18 is exactly the four fruit counts added together, so the missing count is sitting inside that 18 next to the three we know.
The survey puts every student in exactly one fruit column, so the four groups cover the whole class with no one left out and no one counted twice.
Because the total of 18 was made by adding the four counts, taking the three known counts back out of 18 undoes that adding and leaves only the tangerine count.
Completed table: apple 5, tangerine 6, banana 3, grape 4 → sum 18 checks out.
Turning each table value into that many circles in its column makes the table and graph show the exact same information.
2.MD.D.10Organize Information In More WaysA table and a graph show the same information in different ways. Carry a value read from one over to the other, then use the total to fill in the rest.