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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 - Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society, Close.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item in the stadium is used as an example?
(a) Seats.
(b) Players.
(c) Vendors.
(d) Bases.

2. What are two things that are often confused by the innumerate?
(a) Cause and effect.
(b) Median and division.
(c) Area and diameter.
(d) Correlation and causation.

3. What item in the structure is referenced?
(a) Windows.
(b) Doors.
(c) Nails.
(d) Bricks.

4. What type of doctor was he?
(a) Research Scientist.
(b) Medical doctor.
(c) Phd in Physics.
(d) Psychoanalyst.

5. What famous doctor does Paulos consider to be an innumerate?
(a) Salk.
(b) Koop.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Freud.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paulos believes that elementary schools lack ______ in their curriculum?

2. What animal is used in the wildlife analogy?

3. What about coincidence makes it the most noticeable among events?

4. The situation for mathematically uneducated high school students is:

5. Which is taught in elementary schools?

(see the answer key)

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