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Statistics, Data, and Probability II Drill 4 Problem 3. Based on this graph, a person who walks about 2.5 hours per week can expect to have a cholesterol level of what?
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- 00:03
And here's another shmoopy question for ya.
- 00:06
The following graph shows points representing the relationship between the amount of time
- 00:09
spent walking per week and cholesterol levels of various people.
- 00:12
The people who don’t walk at all… are on an entirely different, much more depressing graph.
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Based on this graph, a person who walks about 2.5 hours per week can expect
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- 00:21
to have a cholesterol level of… what?
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And here are the potential answers...
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Scatter plot question. These are all about just making educated guesses.
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Emphasis on… educated.
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First let’s find the key points – the question asks about what happens after 2 and
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a half hours or 150 minutes of walking…
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…so we get a line starting here… as each block is 15 minutes.
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If we draw the line upwards, we cross dots around here…
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…so if we draw a horizontal line back to the y-axis…
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…we get to a spot about half way between 120 and 240
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or at about the 180 milligrams per deciliter line.
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So the answer is B.
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As in… “Butter pecan.”
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