The United Nations Development Programme Website Provides Comparative Data by Country

question 45

Multiple Choice

The United Nations Development Programme website provides comparative data by country on key metrics. Two such metrics are life expectancy and expenditures on health as a percent of GDP. The table below shows data on life expectancy and health expenditures in the United States. Which of the following scatterplots best depicts the relationship between life expectancy and expenditures on health as a percent of GDP?

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Definitions:

Frequency

The rate at which a repeated event occurs, such as the number of times an event happens in a given period.

Flu Vaccination

A vaccine that protects against influenza, a contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses.

Placebo

An inert substance or treatment given to a control group in experiments to compare effects with those of actual treatments.

Vaccinated

The state of having received a vaccine to produce immunity against a specific disease.