The Weather Forecast Has Called for an 80 Percent Chance

question 3

Multiple Choice

The weather forecast has called for an 80 percent chance of rain for the last five days and it rained each day. On the sixth day, the forecast again is for an 80 percent chance of rain. Therefore, you forecast that it will rain today. Which method of prediction have you used?

• A) guessing
• B) statistics
• C) extrapolation
• D) predictive model
• E) forecasting

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