Evergreen students must love hitting the courts, much more so than the students of South Pines, right? While this is a reasonable conclusion to make after reading the claim, it may be totally wrong. Ignoring the size of populations is one way that people can use statistics to mislead. The claim above doesn’t seem all that impressive if the Evergreen school district has 5,000 students and the South Pines district only has 500. A district with many more students would logically have more student athletes, including basketball players. Further, if the Evergreen district has 10 times the number of students but only twice as many players, basketball would actually be more popular among the students of South Pines.

Question

Read this sentence from paragraph 3.

While this is a reasonable conclusion to make after reading the claim, it may be totally wrong.

Drag the set of words that best completes the sentence.

The author supports this statement by pointing out that the
in the two districts may be
.

Answer 1

The author supports this statement by pointing out that the size of populations in the two districts may be different.

Answer 2

the answers i have are

number of studients

interest in basketball

student ability

simliar

different

number of basketball players

Answer 3

Based on the options you provided, the best completion for the sentence is:

"The author supports this statement by pointing out that the number of students in the two districts may be different."

This accurately reflects the argument made in the text regarding how population sizes can influence statistics.