Wendy is selling boxes of cookies outside of a local store as part of a summer fundraiser. She starts on Friday at 10am and decides to leave at 4pm . The following graph shows how many boxes of cookies she sold during each hour.

Explain what happens in the graph from segment c to segment d. Give an example of what could have caused this

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Wendy is selling boxes of cookies outside of a local store as part of a summer fundraiser. She starts on Friday at 10am  and decides to leave at 4pm . The following graph shows how many boxes of cookies she sold during each hour. 

Explain what happens in the graph from segment c to segment d. Give an example of what could have caused this

anonymous · Answer

use the graph

anonymous · Answer

at "c" and "d", there is a spike and those times correspond to noon to 2 pm, heavy-duty traffic for the lunch hour.  People bought more cookies at this time as they spent their lunch hour shopping.