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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 8. Which is an accurate statement about the Giants' players weights in 2009?
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Which is an accurate statement about the Giants' players weights in 2009?
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Here are the potential answers...
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This question is asking us about the Giant's
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players weight...information we can find in figure 2.
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More specifically..on the y-axis of the graph.
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Looking at the first statement, most players weighed between 150 and 175 pounds.
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Well, all the red circles that represent each of the players fall between 190 and 200...
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...not really between 150 and 175.
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Which means we can try to find the given interval that encompasses 190 to 200.
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Only option D gives us the proper interval.
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175 to 225 covers 190 and 200.
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Which makes sense right? It's hard to run around the bases for an athlete who's so skinny
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a gust of wind can blow him over or, conversely, he's so heavy that running halfway to first
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feels like running halfway to the moon...So the answer is (D).
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