Question

Please help! I don't understand this. Picture of the graph uploaded below. If 300 people donated blood in Springfield, about how many were AB+? (Note that you must multiply by the percent to find out.)

Answer 1

I honestly hate problems like this. They are designed to trip people up because of the wiggle room in the values you read off the graph. It's some percentage less than 5%, but the exact percentage? Who knows really.

What percentage for AB+ did you get?

Answer 2

I mean I figured it had to be somewhere around 1% or 1.5% I can't really tell.

Answer 3

The blue bar for AB+ is larger, and beyond the halfway point from 0% to 5%

so I'd say the blue is like 3% maybe?

Answer 4

but this is an educated guess really

Answer 5

I would guess about 3%

Answer 6

the red bar is below halfway, so 1% or so

in total, 1% + 3% = 4% for all of AB+ from both towns

Answer 7

whatever the percent is, multiply the decimal form of it by 300 to get your answer

Answer 8

It sounds like they want only Springfield?

Answer 9

oh right, nvm the other town then

Answer 10

I believe the answer is 9.

Answer 11

3% of 300 = 9, yes

Answer 12

Ah well, thank you for helping me make sense of it. I'll probably be back with another simple problem that i think is difficult!!

Answer 13

you're welcome