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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...
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Hope you're in a "reading" sort of mood.
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Hit pause and familiarize yourself with the text and oh the pretty pictures...
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An individual born in 1980 will have a predicted birth date of... what, according to Figure 2?
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And here are the potential answers...

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Wow, bonus... this question already tells
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us what figure we need to look at.
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So if we scooch our eyeballs over to Figure 2...
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...we can see that the predicted birth dates are pretty darn close to the actual birthdates...
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...so we're looking for the year that's closest to 1980.
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Out of all four answer choices, 1982 is the closest, so D is the right answer.
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If we want to get fancy, the graph even shows us that the predicted values seem to be slightly
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higher than the actual values.
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And if we want to get really fancy...
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...we can meet up tonight at Red Lobster. We call dibs on the Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
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