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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 5. How does this average salary compare to the average salary in Figure 1?
ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 5. How does this average salary compare to the average salary in Figure 1?
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The Giants' 2009 average salary is $3,043,017.
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How does this average salary compare to the average salary in Figure 1?
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Well here are the potential answers...
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This question is asking us to compare a given
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salary in 2009 to the average salary in Figure 1.
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So let's look at Figure 1.
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Let's look for the average salary in 2009.
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And hmmm...it's not there. Is that a typo?
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Well..unfortunately not. Because we're only given the salary in 2005 and 2010....
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we have to make some deductions about the data we ARE given.
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The average salary in 2005 is around $2.7 million bucks and the average salary in 2010 is around $3.7 million bucks.
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And the Giant's average salary is $3.043 million bucks give or take..
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and the thing we SHOULD notice... is that the average
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salary is in between the 2005 and 2010 salaries.
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This suggests that the Giants' salary is at least SIMILAR
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to the salary received by the rest of MLB players.
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Which is answer choice C!
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