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PSAT 1.6 Math Diagnostic. Which of the following is most likely to be an accurate statement about Americans over the age of 25 in 2011 with a Bachelor's Degree?


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Thank you We sneak And here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by the study of mankind Oh the

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humanities All right check out this table Survivors connect to

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the level you sent around Damn it All right in

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two thousand eleven there were approximately fifty nine million americans

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over the age of twenty five with a bachelor's degree

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using the data from the survey which of the following

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is most likely to be an accurate statement about americans

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over the age of twenty five in two thousand eleven

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with a bachelor's degree your pencil answers and uh that

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makes sense of my looking table Okay we're looking for

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the one accurate statement which means we've got three impostors

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on the loose it's our job to round them up

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and then we'll send him jail Just call it mission

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in pasta rebel or don't like okay so before we

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get to the answer choices let's grab a nearby scalpel

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hopefully have one handy and dissect this sucker question tells

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us that in two thousand eleven there were approximately fifty

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nine million americans over the age of twenty five with

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a bachelor's degree Well looking at where the total column

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is and the total roe in our table we can

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see that there were nine hundred thirty nine thousand seven

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hundred six people surveyed that's Just a bit fewer than

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fifty nine million So how are we supposed to know

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anything about all those other folks Considering we have fewer

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than a million results now Unfortunately that simple idea of

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serving as long as there's a large enough sample size

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and almost a million sounds pretty good sized to us

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We can rely on the percentages to tell us something

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about the bigger picture How much is nine hundred thirty

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nine thousand seven hundred fifty six in relation of fifty

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nine million Well we can figure that out simply by

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dividing them one into the other So nine three nine

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seven five six divided by fifty nine million is point

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pull one five nine In other words the people surveyed

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represent roughly one point five Nine percent of the total

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population of twenty five and over Bachelor degree holders Now

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let's check out the first answer choice option A about

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nine point two million women would have held a bachelors

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degree in science and engineering Well according to our table

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there were sixty five Thousand seven hundred sixty one Women

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with a bachelor degree in science and engineering That's based

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on the surveys Sample size How many are likely to

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fall into that category out of the entire fifty nine

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million We'll figure that out We need to know how

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many times One point five nine goes into one hundred

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Okay division time hundred divided by one point five Nine

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is a sixty two point eight nine called sixty three

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What that means is that any number in our table

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can be multiplied by sixty two point eight nine And

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we'll have a pretty good idea of how many men

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are Women could be expected to fall into this or

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that category when we take absolutely everybody into account So

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for option a we take sixty five thousand seven hundred

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sixty one multiplied by sixty two point eight nine to

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get around four point one million Not quite The nine

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point two million we need Is it all right let's

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Try another one See about twenty seven point eight million

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men would have held a bachelor's degree in arts and

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humanities Well going back to our table Looks like of

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the men surveyed Two Hundred forty four thousand seven hundred

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eighty two of them had degrees in arts and humanities

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multiplying that by sixty two point eight nine we get

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about fifteen point four million not even in the neighborhood

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What about d About three point two million men would

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have held a bachelor's degree in education Well here we

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take fifty seven thousand two hundred seventy nine and multiply

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that by sixty two point eighty nine which would give

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us around three point six million blue clothes but no

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peace pipe Well then hopefully option b works out about

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twelve point Eight million women would have held a bachelor's

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degree in arts and humanities So two hundred three thousand

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six hundred ninety one time sixty two point eight nine

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and we get twelve point eight million it's a match

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The imposters have been apprehended and what old man Wilkins 00:03:48.083 --> [endTime] uh we should have known

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