Question

an italian restaurant counted how often its customers ate pizza last month.
eating pizza last month
(there is a dot plot here, the horizontal axis is times eaten with labels 0,1,2,3,4,5. the number of x at 0 is 8, at 1 is 5, at 2 is 9, at 3 is 4, at 4 is 2.)
how many customers ate pizza fewer than 3 times?
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Explanation:

Step1: Count customers who ate 0 times

Count of Xs at 0: $8$

Step2: Count customers who ate 1 time

Count of Xs at 1: $6$

Step3: Count customers who ate 2 times

Count of Xs at 2: $9$

Step4: Sum the three counts

$8 + 6 + 9 = 23$

Answer:

23 customers