Vignette #1 Carly Is an Overweight 21 Year Old Who

question 80

Multiple Choice

Vignette #1 Carly is an overweight 21 year old who is committed to good health after taking a nutrition course. She realizes that being a savvy shopper is part of the process and decides to learn how to look more critically at food labels. She picks up two different boxes of ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and sees the food labels shown in Figure 1. Help Carly evaluate these 2 breakfast cereals. What is the percentage of calories from fat in cereal #1?

• A) 9%
• B) 43%
• C) 60%
• D) 65%

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A quantification of the degree to which a set of values is spread out or dispersed, indicating the extent of deviation from the average value.

Confidence Interval

A set of values that comes from sample statistics, expected to encompass the value of a parameter from an unknown population.

Sample Mean

The average value calculated from a sample of data, representing the central tendency of the sample.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability in a population data set.