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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 1. What do the statistics in Figure 1 suggest?
ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 2. Which of the following is a variable in Figure 1, but not in Figure 2?
ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 3. What is the strong correlation between weight and a player's salary?
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ACT Science: Data Representation Passage Drill 1, Problem 4. What can be concluded from Figure 2?
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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by player salary.
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Sadly, they don't get paid overtime.
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What can be concluded from Figure 2?
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And here are the potential answers...
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This question is asking us what we can conclude
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from figure 2...so let's... look at figure 2.
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Yeah, just pass on by figure 1. We couldn't care less about it right now.
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All our answer choices are dealing with salary,
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so we want to look at those numbers along the bottom...
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Ok... our first answer choice states that the majority of players make
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less than $5 million bucks.
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What? You mean they're not all making A-Rod money? Shocking...
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We can check this $5 million figure by looking to see if a majority of the red circles, which
- 00:47
represent each player...
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...is between $0 and $5 million in salary, as represented by the x axis of the graph.
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Yup. Definitely true. In fact, only 6 players make more than $5 million.
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Guess we know who gets stuck with the check when they hit up Applebee's over the weekend.
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So yeah...our answer is A. As in "A-Rod paying for Appetizers at Applebees."
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