While Some Believe That Binge Drinking Is Just a Fun

question 48

Multiple Choice

While some believe that binge drinking is just a fun thing to do at parties, the results of such behavior really contradict such a notion. Which of the following is an accurate consequence of binge drinking?

• A) The rates of assault on college campuses actually go down when drinking goes up, as people become too incapacitated by drinking to go out and get into trouble.
• B) Somewhere around 1,700 college students between the ages of 18 and 24 die every year in the United States from drinking too much.
• C) Around 700,000 college students a year are victims of alcohol-related date-rape.
• D) The rate of binge drinking in the general public has increased in the same proportions that it has increased among college students.

Understand the concepts of independence and dependence between two events.

Differentiate between mutually exclusive events and independent events and understand their probabilities.

Understand the law of total probability and how it relates to conditional probabilities.

Understand the complement rule and its application to probability calculations.

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Definitions:

Exponentially Distributed

Pertains to a type of statistical distribution that describes the time between events in a process where events occur continuously and independently at a constant average rate.

Variance

Variance is a statistical measure that represents the dispersion or spread of a dataset by calculating the average of the squared differences from the mean, indicating how much the data points in a set differ from the mean value.

Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution that describes the time between events in a process where occurrences happen at a constant rate.

Proportion

A portion, segment, or fraction when evaluated in relation to its entirety.