i own three dogs 5 cats 7 squirrels 8birds 10 lizards and 4 beetles I told my friends that my ratio of dogs+cats to my other pets is 8:37 but my friend says it is 8:29 Who is correct (if any) and if someone made a mistake what was the mistake

The friend is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

The ratio of dogs+cats to the other pets is 29. However the ratio of dogs+cats to the total number of pets is 8:37. Which they didn’t ask for, and ask for the ratio of dogs+cats to other pets.

Your friend is correct.

Step-by-step explanation:

You have 3 dogs and 5 cats; that makes [8] pets. Now, add up the rest of your pets (excluding dogs and cats, of course).

7 (squirrels) + 8 (birds) + 10 (lizards) + 4 (beetles) = [29] pets

[8:29]

By the looks of it, the mistake made here was adding up everything when calculating the second part of the ratio, including the dogs and cats (this shouldn't have been done).

Hope this helps, and have a good one.

the results from a pre-test for students for the year 2000 and the year 2010 are illustrated in the box plot. what do these results tell us about how students performed on the 29 question pre-test for the two years?

if we compare only the lowest and highest scores between the two years, we might conclude that the students in 2010 did better than the students in 2010. this conclusion seems to follow since the lowest score of 8 in 2010 is greater in value than the lowest score of 6 in 2000. also, the highest score of 28 in 2010 is greater in value than the highest score of 27 in 2000.

but the box portion of the illustration gives us more detailed information. the middle bar in each box shows us that the median score of 20 in 2000 is greater in value than the median score of 17 in 2010. further, we note that the box and whiskers divide the illustration into four pieces. each of these four pieces represents the same portion of students. so, the upper half of the students in 2000 scored in the same score range as the upper one-fourth of the students in 2010, see the illustration at a score of 20.

by considering the upper one-fourth, upper half, and upper three-fourths instead of just the lowest and highest scores, we would conclude that the students as a whole did much better in 2000 than in 2010. we would conclude that as a whole the students in 2010 are less prepared than the students in 2000.

in this section, we discuss box-and-whisker plots and the five key values used in constructing a box-and-whisker plot. the key values are called a five-number summary, which consists of the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

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