1. Warm-Up
The Bobber You can paddle your canoe seven miles per hour through any placid lake. The stream flows at three miles per hour. The moment you start to paddle up stream a fisherman loses one of his bobbers in the water fourteen miles up stream of you. How many hours does it take for you and the bobber to meet?

2. Selecting and Using Information
Chapter 31

3. Warm-Up Answer
Answer: 2 Ignore the speed of the stream, as the bobber will be carried along at three miles per hour as will you. It takes two hours to travel fourteen miles, at a rate of seven miles per hour.

4. Possible Forms of Information
Tabular
summaries of surveys
transport timetables
Graphical
bar graph
pie chart
Verbal or Serial
summary of information

5. Possible Forms of Information
Pictorial
drawings
Diagrammatic
flow charts
maps
schedules
See pages in your book for examples

6. What are the ways information can be provided to you?
Lesson Summary
What are the ways information can be provided to you?
Answer in complete sentences and give examples