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document.write( "Suppose you read the average family in virgina has 2.41 children. What average is being used to describe the data? Explain </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose you read the average family in virgina has 2.41 children. What average is being used to describe the data? Explain<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Average is an adjective referring to the number of children per family.  It's an average number, nothing to do with an \"average family\", whatever that might be.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The statement should be rewritten, \"Families in VA have an average of 2.41 children.\"  Reporters and newspeople are mostly idiots and produce a lot of gibberish.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It's the number of children divided by the number of families.<BR>\n" );
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