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ACT Science Data Representation Passage: Drill 3, Problem 5. According to Figure 2, what birth date will be predicted for an individual actually born in 1980?
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- 00:03
Here's an unshmoopy question you'll find on a science exam somewhere in life...
- 00:07
Hope you're in a "reading" sort of mood.
- 00:09
Hit pause and familiarize yourself with the text and oh the pretty pictures...
- 00:27
An individual born in 1980 will have a predicted birth date of... what, according to Figure 2?
- 00:34
And here are the potential answers...
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- 00:44
Wow, bonus... this question already tells
- 00:46
us what figure we need to look at.
- 00:48
So if we scooch our eyeballs over to Figure 2...
- 00:51
...we can see that the predicted birth dates are pretty darn close to the actual birthdates...
- 00:57
...so we're looking for the year that's closest to 1980.
- 01:00
Out of all four answer choices, 1982 is the closest, so D is the right answer.
- 01:05
If we want to get fancy, the graph even shows us that the predicted values seem to be slightly
- 01:09
higher than the actual values.
- 01:12
And if we want to get really fancy...
- 01:14
...we can meet up tonight at Red Lobster. We call dibs on the Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
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