Question

the children in the art club made greeting cards and kept track of how many they made.
making greeting cards
(there is a dot plot here, the horizontal axis is greeting cards made with labels 0,1,2,3,4,5. the number of x at each position: 0 has 3, 1 has 0, 2 has 9, 3 has 2, 4 has 7, 5 has 4)
how many children made fewer than 2 greeting cards?
□ children

Explanation:

Step1: Count children who made 0 cards

Count of Xs at 0: $3$

Step2: Count children who made 1 card

Count of Xs at 1: $0$

Step3: Sum the two counts

$3 + 0 = 3$

Answer:

3 children