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[k31453]

The answer of this question is 0.5

So how do you solve this question ??

[Jordzs]

22 countries altogether. 11 of them have a higher rate of female minister than in Australia.
Therefore, 11/22 = 0.5 :-) Hope that helps

[Stick]

Just count up which countries have a greater number than Australia and present that in fractional, decimal or percentage form.

A lot of students misunderstood this question and wrote "11" or "Norway" as their answer.

[Yendall]

Just count up which countries have a greater number than Australia and present that in fractional, decimal or percentage form.

A lot of students misunderstood this question and wrote "11" or "Norway" as their answer.

You can't state it as a percentage. It's wrong, as a proportion must be stated as a decimal or fraction.

[Jordzs]

Just count up which countries have a greater number than Australia and present that in fractional, decimal or percentage form.

A lot of students misunderstood this question and wrote "11" or "Norway" as their answer.

You can't state it as a percentage. It's wrong, as a proportion must be stated as a decimal or fraction.

Yep, must be expressed as a proportion as the question states :-)

[Stick]

I'm sure they'd still award marks for it, because you've taken in account that it represents the relationship between selected data and the entire data. However, yes, it would be best to express your answer in fractional or decimal form.

[Yendall]

I'm sure they'd still award marks for it, because you've taken in account that it represents the relationship between selected data and the entire data. However, yes, it would be best to express your answer in fractional or decimal form.

I don't think they do! last year it was labelled incorrect I believe.

[Stick]

That's weird. Now we all know what a proportion is.

[jasoN-]

I put 50% as the answer when I sat the exam, still got full marks, just sayin'.

[Nima2703]

I just did the same exam and the wording is unbelievable and they expect you to get it right..like 12% got this question right because of the wording my god..it says there are 6 sections inbetween two flagpoles 100km apart. so you find the sum with solve or transpose as 100 for the sum and find a because it asks for the length of the first section. i drew the poles and six sections as in dots so it became 7 spaces inbetween so i used n=7 while it should've been 6 because apparently sections means spaces ;( Also lost another 2 marks because it asked whats the best toll to use at what time and i wrote toll A for up to 10 sections and B for the remainder but only one toll can be used because its for a single trip so the answer is toll A if the motorist is going up to 10 sections and B if it's over 10 ;( if i lose marks for wording tomorrow im going to cry..also it asked for the general trend of the graph i wrote "theres a generally upward secular trend" and in assessment report its "an increasing trend", it doesnt look seasonal at all its going up pretty well..what do i do? lol