Last year, 12 hydrange bushes had a mean of 14 blooms each, with a standard deviation of 2. The dot plot shows the number of blooms on the same bushes this year after a new plant food is used. What conclusions can you draw about the use of the new plant foor and the number of blooms?​

The plant food produces more blooms on average, but the results aren't as consistent as before.

Explanation:

The dot plot leads to this data set

{8, 12, 12, 17, 17, 18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 20, 23}

Using pencil/paper, or using technology, you should find the following properties of this data set

The second value is approximate. Both the mean and standard deviation are larger than their original counterparts (mean = 14 and std dev = 2).

Since the mean is larger, this means the data points have been shifted to the right further. The larger standard deviation tells us that the data is more spread out.

So it appears this new plant food has made the number of blooms increase overall, but it's also made the data more inconsistent. A smaller standard deviation would mean a more narrow set of points and therefore more consistent values (they'd all be clumped around the mean better).

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.