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Here’s a shmoopy question comin’ at ya…

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The amount of time (in minutes) two brothers,

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Ben and Bob, spent playing sports over the course of a week are shown in the following figure.

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For the purposes of this question, we will consider soccer a sport.

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Based on the graph, which of the following is correct?

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And here are the potential options…

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Can we read a graph? We’ll see...

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We have to just go through the potential answers one by one.

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A. “Over the course of the entire week, Bob spent more time playing sports than Ben.”

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So clearly we’re gonna need to add the total amount of time spent by each to answer this

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question – let’s just make a little table:

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We can just add the numbers –

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and boom - A is correct.

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And really, we could have just looked at the graph…

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…Bob smokes Ben for minutes practiced every day of the week except Saturday and only “loses”

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by a small amount that day…

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…so just a quick glance could have told us that A was our guy.

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There’s not even a need to test the rest. We can save our energy.

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In case we want to, you know… play soccer.

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