Consider the box-and-whisker graphs shown. They suggest that a U.S. Department of Agriculture study shows that poultry dogs have fewer calories per dog than either beef dogs or meat dogs. Yet, one dietitian 150% of the calories of some hot dogs made of beef. Can this claim be correct? Explain.
The graph shows Both beef and meat have 150 calories and poultry has 130 calories.
So the claim cannot be correct, right?
Wait the graph shows ranges. The meat hot dogs can go up to 195 calories while the lowest for the poultry can be only 85 calories. Is 195 calories 150% more calories then 85?
You omitted some important information following "Yet, one dietition 150%......" so we can't tell what the graph should show.
Sorry, I don't know how that happend. The full sentence is this:
Yet, one dietitian
claims that some hot dogs made of poultry have 150% of the calories of some hot dogs made of beef.
To determine if the claim made by the dietitian is correct, we should first understand the information provided. The graph shows that poultry dogs have fewer calories per dog than both beef dogs and meat dogs. The calorie count for beef and meat dogs is 150, while poultry dogs have 130 calories.
To address the claim made by the dietitian stating that some beef hot dogs contain 150% of the calories, we need to calculate 150% of 150 calories.
To find 150% of a number, you multiply the number by 1.5 (since 150% is equivalent to 1.5 as a decimal). Therefore, 150% of 150 is 1.5 x 150 = 225 calories.
Comparing this calculated value of 225 calories to the calorie count of 150 for beef hot dogs shown on the graph, we can see that the claim made by the dietitian cannot be correct. The actual calorie count for beef hot dogs is 150, not 225 as the claim suggests.
In conclusion, based on the information provided by the graph, the claim made by the dietitian is not correct. The actual calorie count for beef hot dogs is lower than what the claim states.