POLL: Controversial Question 8 (Core)

[xXNovaxX]

hahahaha, It's funny how everyone just says QUIET CLEARLY, or THE ANSWER IS, without much logic/working out.

Not bagging anyone, because i'm one of those people.

Lets hope both are correct I guess, but to be honest all the C pplz, just stick with the easiest next time , dont over complicate things!

But points go out to you's for  having an eye for detail.

[VxBlitzxN]

yea i had a feeling they got that wrong, but as usual with vcaa you ignore logic inorder to find the "answer"

awesome, an education system that denounces logic.

[mtlz]

i def put E
it better be right

[Neobeo]

If the question was:
The percentage of (animals whose exposure to danger is high) whose chance of attack is below average, is closest to

then it would be non-ambiguously E.

[anonuser0511]

yea i had a feeling they got that wrong, but as usual with vcaa you ignore logic inorder to find the "answer"

awesome, an education system that denounces logic.

lol as in they list the exposure to danger in order of high, medium and low.
but they graph is opposite
making there a HIGH change of attack during low exposure, but that make the argument whether it's E or A but some of you people are saying C. - 86/3 = 26.67% which i don't think makes sense since they're asking "The percentage of animals whose exposure to danger is high" not "Out of all the animals the percentage ....

so i went with E

[xXNovaxX]

^^ beautifully said.

[kazoospasm]

We don't know that the number of animals for each of low, medium and high exposure to danger is equal, so we can't compare them that way. There could be 100 for low, 100 for medium and 20000 for high, for all we know. 

This.

[nikinoo]

i did E, but i dont understand how it could be C ?

[cjays66]

We don't know that the number of animals for each of low, medium and high exposure to danger is equal, so we can't compare them that way. There could be 100 for low, 100 for medium and 20000 for high, for all we know. 

This.

Yes, this makes logical sense. Therefore E

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yea i had a feeling they got that wrong, but as usual with vcaa you ignore logic inorder to find the "answer"

awesome, an education system that denounces logic.

lol as in they list the exposure to danger in order of high, medium and low.
but they graph is opposite
making there a HIGH change of attack during low exposure, but that's make the argument whether it's E or A but some of you people are saying C. - 86/3 = 26.67% which i don't think makes sense since they're asking "The percentage of animals whose exposure to danger is high" not "Out of all the animals the percentage ....

so i went with E

Sorry to butt in, but this discussion is just too interesting

"The percentage of animals whose exposure to danger during sleep is high, and whose chance of attack is below average, is closest to:"

The way it's worded, let
A = exposure is high
B = chance of attack is below average

This is asking , not .

If it were it should have read
"Of the animals whose exposure to danger is high, the percentage whose chance of attack is below average is:"
or
"The percentage of animals whose chance of attack is below average given that their exposure to danger during sleep is high is:"
But as it is it's just asking for the percentage that is A AND B.

Although rustic_metal has an extremely good reason why it should be , I don't think that's what the question is asking.
Either they messed up the wording, or they did not take into account rustic_metal's argument.
Either way, I think it is a flawed question, and everyone should get marks for it.

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Although it would make sense to consider it in terms of probabilities, it's Further - and from what I've seen, no question of such a fashion ever required you to calculate it for 300%. In my view, they just point you to the HIGH column, where you locate the below average thing. I think it's being made more complex than what it really is. I hope so anyway.

[xXNovaxX]

Hahah, the poll above says it all

[ashok]

Firstly if you use the method High Exposure intersect below avg, the answer would be 29. C=28
Secondly, you dont know how many animals are in each group. Only percentages. So low exposure may have 10 animals while High has 100. So you cant assume that each group is equal making 29% incorrect.

E.G. 100 in high
       10 in low
        10 in medium

86 in high are below avg.
so 86/(100+10+10) *100 = 72 %

Any number of combinations depending on the numbers in each group.

So answer must be E

[QuantumJG]

What was the question etc?

Here is the mother of all.....

Easy its E

why?

Look at the bars!

The percentage of animals whose exposure to danger during sleep is high, and whose chance of attack is
below average, is closest to

So the first bold means we are interested in the third (EDIT: bar graph) (as clearly shown), and the part of this bar that we are interested in is the very dark area. This dark area covers aprroximately 86% of the bar, hence the answer is E. This isn't exactly that contraversial!

[shishywonka]

honestly its obviously E, clearly E