Stats Modeling the World, 4th Edition

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ISBN 10: 0133151549
ISBN 13: 978-0-13315-154-1

Chapter 2 - Displaying and Describing Categorical Data - Exercises - Page 38: 23

Answer

a) 82.5% white students b) 12.9% senior students who are planning to attend the class. c) 11.1% d) 13.4% e) 85.7% is the percentage of senior planning to attend a 2-year college are white.

Work Step by Step

To find a percentage, always find what fraction of a whole a certain thing is. Then, express this fraction as a decimal by performing division. Finally, multiply by 100% to get the decimal expressed as a percentage.
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