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SAT Math 3.5 Statistics and Probability 256 Views


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SAT Math 3.5 Statistics and Probability

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Time for your daily dose of Shmoop. Open wide!

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1590 college freshmen and 1450 college seniors were asked about their primary field of study.

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This bar graph shows the results.

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Compared to seniors, freshman overwhelmingly study which of the following?

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And here are the potential answers…

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Ok, this question is testing whether or not we know how to read a graph.

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Since freshmen are depicted in blue, and seniors are depicted in orange, as shown by the key on the right…

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This kinda key.

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…we need to look for the field of study where the blue bar far exceeds the length

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of the orange bar to find which subject freshmen overwhelmingly study compared to seniors.

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The subject that fits this description better than any other field of study in the graph is PreMed.

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It’s…pretty obvious that this blue bar is way longer than this orange bar.

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The correct answer is (E).

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