Which Statement About Rates of Overweight and Obesity in the United

question 78

Multiple Choice

Which statement about rates of overweight and obesity in the United States is true?

• A) Overweight children and adolescents typically lose weight between ages 25 and 50.
• B) First-generation adults have lower odds of becoming obese than their foreign-born counterparts.
• C) A substantial number of people show large weight gains between ages 25 and 50.
• D) The overweight rate exceeds the obesity rate, which indicates that the trend is improving.

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Definitions:

Relative Frequency

The frequency with which an event occurs as a proportion of the total number of trials or observations.

Total

A statistic specifying the number of items in a class or the sum of their values on a variable.

Ratio

A statistic specifying the number of items in a class, or the sum of their values on a variable, per unit of some other class; a ratio is a total expressed in relative terms.

Total

The complete amount or sum of parts or units in a collection.