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Information and Ideas practice question
Visitors to a castle by season last year:
Spring: 12,000
Summer: 30,000
Autumn: 15,000
Winter: 3,000
Which statement is best supported by the data?
- A. Summer accounted for half of the year's visitors.Correct
- B. Winter had more visitors than spring.
- C. Autumn had twice as many visitors as spring.
- D. The castle had fewer than 50,000 visitors in the year.
Answer: A. Summer accounted for half of the year's visitors.
Total 60,000; summer's 30,000 is half.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Winter had more visitors than spring.
- 3,000 < 12,000.
- C. Autumn had twice as many visitors as spring.
- 15,000 is not twice 12,000.
- D. The castle had fewer than 50,000 visitors in the year.
- The total is 60,000.
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