Practice #16

Given the double bar graph, answer the questions below. When you are done check your answers with the ones provided in the solution (Click on the [solution to practice] button at the bottom of this page).

Changes in the Educational Attainment
of the Adult Population

  1. What trends do you notice in the graph?
  2. Approximately what percentage more students graduated high school than college in the 1960's?
  3. As the percentages of graduates of both high school and college have risen in past decades, have the percents grown closer together, or further apart?


Solution
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