Information and IdeasVery hardReading a table of accident rates
Information and Ideas practice question
Road accidents on two routes, 2024
Route | Vehicles per day | Accidents in the year
Coast road | 4,000 | 60
Valley road | 20,000 | 150
A planner argues that the coast road, despite having fewer accidents, is the more dangerous of the two, because ____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
- A. it had 60 accidents with 4,000 vehicles a day, or 15 accidents per thousand daily vehicles, against 7.5 for the valley road.Correct
- B. the valley road had 150 accidents in the year.
- C. the coast road carries 4,000 vehicles a day.
- D. the valley road carries five times as many vehicles as the coast road.
Answer: A. it had 60 accidents with 4,000 vehicles a day, or 15 accidents per thousand daily vehicles, against 7.5 for the valley road.
Danger is a rate; the coast road's is double.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the valley road had 150 accidents in the year.
- The larger raw count, which the planner set aside.
- C. the coast road carries 4,000 vehicles a day.
- Traffic alone, no accidents.
- D. the valley road carries five times as many vehicles as the coast road.
- Traffic alone.
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