Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World (6th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0321911210
ISBN 13: 978-0-32191-121-6

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Statistics - Section 1.1 An Overview of Statistics - Exercises - Page 8: 48

Answer

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Work Step by Step

a) An inference can be that the rate of obesity among boys age $2$ and $19$ increases every year. b) The obesity doesn't necessarily go up every year (by the fact that there is a connection between the year and obesity rate), it can also decrease in some years, so we have a cause and effect error.
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