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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