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There are many ways that the information from the graph above could be portrayed.For example, a dot graph and a time series graph. A line graph is the most convenient way to portray this type of information because it easily is set up to show the percent of smoking trends amongst teens and adults from 1965-2011. This graph is easily done by plotting the percentage by year for both students and adults for each year. The graph shows that adults have been smoking since 1965 at a high rate and slowly started increasing. Students did not  start smoking with a high percentage until 1991 and increased rapidly as well as decreasing after a few years. By 2011, the percentage for adults and students had a 1.1% difference. The graph also shows the pert age expectancy for the year 2020 showing a 4% higher smoking trend amongst students than in adults.

The link to this article is :

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/trends/cig_smoking/

Next Spring I will be graduating with my Liberal Arts degree and moving onto a Bachelors degree program to become an educator for grades K-12. Being an educator requires a lot of mathematical critical thinking. Grade school teachers as well as college professors use math when they calculate grades, budget cost supplies,estimate time to complete tasks, and especially when they teach it! I use math in my everyday life when I am at work. I work as a science teacher for an after school program Samuel Field Y. I do a lot of experiments with my students and it requires math in almost every lesson. We use it by making measurements and dividing into equal groups according to amount of supplies. Math is a major factor for my future career as well as my everyday life.