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The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health interviewed several thousand teens (grades 7 to 12). One question asked was “What do you think are the chances you will be married in the next 10 years?” Here is a two-way table of the responses by gender:
Opinion | Female | Male |
Almost+no+chance | 108 | 116 |
Some+chance+but+probably+not | 131 | 187 |
A+50-50+chance | 449 | 510 |
A+good+chance | 754 | 702 |
Almost+certain | 1168 | 773 |
- How many individuals are described in this table?___________
- How many females were among the respondents?___________
- The percent of females among the respondents was about________%
- The percent of females among the respondents was about_____________%
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