1. Which of the following statements do you think could possibly be true? A. The
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1. Which of the following statements do you think could possibly be true?
A. The number of students enrolled at Midville University decreased by 10.4% last year.
B. A basketball team took 20 free throws in a game last week and made 72.6% of them.
C. Yesterday it was 30° (Fahrenheit) in Chicago. Today it warmed up to 60°. This is a 50% increase in the temperature.
2. The well-respected journal Science, in an article on insects and plants, mentioned a California field that produced 750,000 melons per acre. How do you react to that? It may help you know that an acre is 43,560 square feet.
A. This is reasonable, suggesting about 1.7 melons per square foot
B. This is unreasonable, suggesting about 17 melons per square foot
C. This is unreasonable, suggesting about only 0.05 melons per square foot
3. In the New York Times Magazine, Tara Parker-Pope makes the case that teenagers are more conservative than their parents were. For example, the fraction of high-school seniors who reported that they had recently consumed alcohol fell from 72% in 1980 (illustrated as the big one-gallon – 128 ounce - jug) to 40% in 2011 (illustrated as the little 8-ounce glass). The actual percent “Parents” consumption divided by percent “Kids” consumption is approximately _____ but the graphic makes that ratio look more like _____. The two best answers for filling in these blanks (in respective order) are:
A. 1.8 and 1.6
B. 1.8 and 16
C. 32 and 1.6.
4. The claim has been made that over 4 million women in the U.S. are battered to death each year by a spouse or boyfriend. What is wrong with this claim?
A. Only about 2.4 million people die in the U.S. each year from all causes.
B. Only about 300,000 people die in the U.S. each year from all causes.
C. Only about 2.4 thousand people die in the U.S. each year from all causes.
5. What do we mean by “human inference?”
A. Off-hand phrase taken to mean inference we make from statistical constructs
B. Off-hand phrase taken to mean “statistically significant.”
C. Off-hand phrase taken to mean basic numeracy.
Explanation / Answer
4. The claim has been made that over 4 million women in the U.S. are battered to death each year by a spouse or boyfriend. What is wrong with this claim?
Ans:A. Only about 2.4 million people die in the U.S. each year from all causes.(option A is correct)
1. Which of the following statements do you think could possibly be true?
A. The number of students enrolled at Midville University decreased by 10.4% last year.
B. A basketball team took 20 free throws in a game last week and made 72.6% of them.
C. Yesterday it was 30° (Fahrenheit) in Chicago. Today it warmed up to 60°. This is a 50% increase in the temperature.
ANs:None of the above
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