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Background: As fall approaches, the days get shorter and colder, and then in the spring, the cycle reversed itself. The days get longer and warmer.
The graph is a scatter plot of the daily temperature averaged over 50 years and the hours of sunlight on that day.
Data Source: wunderground.com
Questions:
1. Describe what the graph shows day lengths and temperatures. (Remember every year there are two days with the same length of daylight. One is in the late winter, spring, or early summer, and the other is in the late summer, fall, or early winter.)
2. I interpret this graph to mean…
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