The CBS Evening News reported on May 28, 2010, that 1.3 million high school
students drop out of high school every year, noting that equals 7,000 every day or one
every 26 seconds.
In providing this explanation of the larger number, the report _____.
A) used a surplus of statistics to make the evidence more impressive
B) presented the statistical information in clear, meaningful terms
C) avoided descriptive statistics, since they would appear unwieldy
D) used the mean as the average, as it is more reliable than the median or mode
B
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