Information and IdeasHardSupporting a share claim
Information and Ideas practice question
A school's after-school clubs by members:
Chess: 20
Drama: 30
Sport: 100
Music: 50
A teacher claims that sport accounts for half of all club memberships. Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to support the claim?
- A. Sport has 100 of the 200 memberships, which is exactly half.Correct
- B. Sport has more members than any other club.
- C. Sport has five times as many members as chess.
- D. Sport has 100 members.
Answer: A. Sport has 100 of the 200 memberships, which is exactly half.
Half of the total: 100 of 200.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Sport has more members than any other club.
- Most members doesn't establish half.
- C. Sport has five times as many members as chess.
- A comparison with one club, not the whole.
- D. Sport has 100 members.
- A count without the total.
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