Thursday, September 10, 2009
[stats quiz] tied up in numbers
1. The typical person breathes ? cubic metres of air in his or her lifetime.
a. 250 000
b. 370 000
c. 540 000
2. Over ? of the world's population lives north of the Equator.
a. 64%
b. 79%
c. 85%
3. For every 100,000 girls, 223 will become doctors and ? will become nurses.
a. 17,475
b. 58,625
c. almost all of them
4. Around ?% of murders occur during arguments.
a. 15%
b. 25%
c. 40%
5. One's lifetime risk of dying due to living with a smoker is 1 in 4,200. Getting struck by lightning over the course of a lifetime is more likely, with odds of ... ?
a. 1 in 2,000
b. 1 in 2,700
c. 1 in 3,000
Source.
Answers
370,000 ... 85% ... 17,475 ... 40% ... 3000
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