Graphic Literacy Level 7

An electronics technician uses the “Resistor Color Table” below to determine the resistance of the resistors he works with. To do so, he needs the colors of the first three bands, starting on the left and moving right (the color of the rightmost band can be ignored).

For a resistor with the color code Blue-Red-Black, he knows to translate it as Blue=6, Red=2, Black=“multiply by 1.” Such a resistor has a resistance of 62 ohms (62 ∗ 1 = 62).

The following resistor has the color code Green-Blue-Red, which translates as Green=5, Blue=6, Red=“multiply by 100” for a resistance of 5600 ohms (56 ∗ 100 = 5600).

What is the resistance of the following resistor that he is currently analyzing?

Josi is an adult woman whose height is considered the 75^th percentile (75%) of women. What is the most she can weigh, in pounds, and still be considered healthy according to the provided BMI chart?

Adult Height Percentiles

Body Mass Index (BMI)

The following graphic is taken from an airline’s route map from 1970.  For a portion of the United States, the map shows flights that the airline flew between various cities.  Which city appears to be the busiest for this airline?

An experimental scramjet reached a speed of Mach 1 during a test flight in the Stratosphere. It was travelling 685 mph when it achieved Mach 1. Based on the information below, at what altitude was the jet most-likely traveling?

A researcher at a thinktank is reviewing USDA documents to attempt to better understand the impact of funding on the five crop management practices shown in the graph.

Knowing that the graph shows the percentage of total funding that each practice received in a given year, he is able to calculate that “Terraces” received approximately 42% (55 − 13 = 42%) of the total funding in 1998.

When the researcher estimates the percentage of total funding that “Cover crops” received in 2016, what will be the result?