GRAPH EXERCISE.Girls Join the Team Anyone who has followed today's top-notch women's college hoopsters knows that women's sports have come a long way since the days of sparsely sparse adj. spars·er, spars·est Occurring, growing, or settled at widely spaced intervals; not thick or dense. [Latin sparsus, past participle of spargere, to scatter. attended half-court games. Thanks to Title IX, a 1972 Federal law barring gender-based discrimination, women's sports have received a larger share of athletic budgets. With that has come a rise in the number of girls participating in school sports. The graphs This partial list of graphs contains definitions of graphs and graph families which are known by particular names, but do not have a Wikipedia article of their own. For collected definitions of graph theory terms that do not refer to individual graph types, such as below show the total number of high school students active in sports in selected years and female athletes as a percentage of each year's total. (Figures are rounded to the nearest whole number.) Source: Women's Sports Foundation The Women's Sports Foundation (WSF) "is a charitable educational organization dedicated to ensuring equal access to participation and leadership opportunities for all girls and women in sports and fitness. . [GRAPH graph, figure that shows relationships between quantities. The graph of a function y=f (x) is the set of points with coordinates [x, f (x)] in the xy-plane, when x and y are numbers. OMITTED] 1. In which of the following periods did the total number of student athletes increase fastest? (a) the early 1970s; (b) the late 1980s; (c) the late 1990s. 2. In which school year shown did the female percentage of athletes in high school sports rise the most? 3. In which school year did more girls participate in high school sports, 1973-74 or 1990-91? 4. About how many gifts participated in high school sports in the 1995-1996 academic year? 5. Which statement is not supported by the graph? (a) Boys' participation in high school sports declined immediately after the initial rise in gifts' participation, but then resumed its normal rate. (b) High school girls High School Girls (女子高生 Joshi Kōsei continue to demonstrate a growing interest in sports. (c) In one of the years shown, the percentage of athletes who are female actually declined. 6. Although this graph doesn't does·n't Contraction of does not. show it, girls' participation in high school sports increased by 800 percent between 1971-72 and 1999-2000, while boys' participation rose by only 4 percent. Does this fact mean that more girls than boys are playing high school sports today Sports Today is a long-running radio show on Melbourne, Australia radio station 3AW. It currently airs on Monday to Thursday between 6pm-8pm and is hosted by Gerard Healy and Dwayne Russell. Previously, it was hosted by the late David Hookes and Gerard Healy. ? 1. (a). 2. 1972-73. 3. 1990-91.4. 2.4 million. 5. (a). 6. Not necessarily; the 800 percent increase in added to a very low base. There were 294,000 girls in sports in 1971, compared with 3.7 million boys. Today, there are 3.9 million boys and 2.7 million girls competing in high school sports. |
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