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      You are sitting at home with Hieley watching cartoons when a news break comes on. The news presenter talks about a lady sick in hospital waiting for a blood transfusion, though she has a rare blood type and can't find any donations. Hiley is very interested by this fact. "We only have one kind of blood and we can donate our blood to anyone we want. How many different types of blood do you have?" Hieley asks. You have no idea, so it's now your job to find out information about different types of blood.

In your groups of two you are going to find out the different blood types in your class and the blood types in Australia, displaying the amount of people in each blood type in a graph, using Microsft Excel.

One person will do the survey on blood types in the class. This person will draw up a tally and ask everyone what their blood type is. To make sure that you have everyone in the class, check your class list.

The other person will be research the different blood types in Australia by [|clicking in this link.] This will take you to the Australian Red Cross web site where you have to search for your information that will tell you how common different blood types are in Australia.

After your tally and research is completed go into Microsoft Excel and create a a graph to show your information. If you can't remember how to do this [|click here.] for a tutorial. Put the graphs together and answer these questions.

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