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could someone please explain why the first question is a Yes? considering all categories, isn't Blue also a fit?
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Blue Diamonds experienced a decrease in "Number of units produced per day" (-0.7) as well as in "Number of days of production" (-1.4).
Similar for all other Dimaonds - expect (small and large) green diamonds

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could someone please explain why the first question is a Yes? considering all categories, isn't Blue also a fit?
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For statement 1:
All the rows have some or the other number negative except for Green Diamonds large and Small for the Produced columns or the Profit Columns. Hence Yes.

Statement 2:
If we sort the column Number of Units produced per day we see Champagne diamonds are Completely Automated. The rest 3 are Partially-Manual. So No.

Statement 3:
For the Completely Automated Rows: The three changes in percentages are: 2.1, 2.5 and 2.8. For the others which is Partially-Manual the highest value is 1.5. So from this we should be able to say that Average of Completely Automated > Partial-Manual.
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The table shows the average annual percentage changes in productivity and profitability of a diamond polishing firm for partially-manual and completely-automated methods of polishing across 8 varieties of diamonds, from the year 2003 to the year 2009.

Diamond
variety
Method of
polishing
Number of
units produced per day
Total number of
units produced
Number of
days of production
Fixed
material cost
Profit
margin
Blue DiamondsCompletely-automated-0.71.8-1.42.52.9
Champagne DiamondsCompletely-automated4.3-0.61.52.10.6
Green Diamonds - LargePartially-manual1.52.70.60.62.1
Green Diamonds - SmallPartially-manual3.90.24.91.52.8
Purple DiamondsPartially-manual3.12.43.31.4-4.4
Synthetic DiamondsCompletely-automated-4.42.23.12.8-3.0
White DiamondsPartially-manual3.42.4-4.80.23.2
Yellow DiamondsPartially-manual1.5-1.9-1.71.9-3.7

For each of the following statements, select Yes if the statement is accurate based on the information provided; otherwise, select No.
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