How Well Does the Number of Beers a Student Drinks

question 52

Multiple Choice

How well does the number of beers a student drinks predict his or her blood alcohol content? Sixteen student volunteers at The Ohio State University drank a randomly assigned number of cans of beer. Thirty minutes later, a police officer measured their blood alcohol content (BAC) . A scatterplot of the data appears below. One student drank 9 beers. You see from the scatterplot that his BAC was about

• A) 0.20.
• B)5)
• C)7)
• D)9)
• E) 20.

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