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A)Yes France has 780 museums while Netherlands has 498
B)Ratio of public to private for the countries are:
1)Austria:203/196=1.03
2)Croatia:220/1=220
3)Estonia:163/61=2.67
4)France:1053/120=8.775
5) Hungary:615/66=9.31
6) Netherlands:713/62=11.5
7)Spain:973/482=2.01
8) Switzerland:960/101=9.5

So answer is false since Croatia has the highest ratio

C)True,per the table when number of public museum decrease/increase the number of visitors per year also decrease/increase in the same pattern

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1. The proportion of museums in France related to architecture, art, or history is greater than the proportion of museums in the Netherlands devoted to art, architecture, or history.

The proportion of museums in France related to architecture, art, or history : 780/1173 = 66.49%.
The proportion of museums in the Netherlands devoted to art, architecture, or history: 498/775 = 64.25%

So yes, the statement is true and can be verified from the data given in the table.
Answer - True.

2. The ratio of public museums to private museums is greatest for Estonia.
Looking at the data of the public to Private Museums of the countries, we can see that Croatia has a ratio of 220/1 and rest are obviously less, as is visible in the data.
So no, the statement is not true.
Answer False.


3.There is a positive correlation between the number of public museums and the number of visitors per year.
We can see that as the no. of public museums increase, the no. of visitors also increase for the countries and as the no. of the no. of museums decrease, like for Estonia, the no. of visitors also reduced in comparison to those Croatia.
So increase/decrease in the no. of public museums is directly related to the increase/decrease in the number of visitors per year.

So true, it can be verified from the table.
Answer True.
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Official Explanation

RO1: Infer

Of all the museums in France, the proportion of museums related to architecture, art, or history is \(\small \frac{780}{1,173}\), or approximately 0.665. Of all the museums in the Netherlands, the proportion of museums related to architecture, art, or history is \(\small \frac{498}{775}\), or approximately 0.643. Therefore the proportion in France is greater than that in the Netherlands.

The correct answer is True.

RO2: Infer

Estonia has 61 private museums and 163 public ones. Sorting the table on Ownership, Private shows that both the Netherlands and Hungary have a similar number of private museums as Estonia, but many more public museums; therefore the ratio of public to private museums in Estonia is lower than that in these countries.

The correct answer is False.

RO3: Infer

Sorting the table on Ownership, Public shows that, in general, as the number of public museums increases so does the number of visitors per year. Therefore there is a positive correlation between the number of public museums and the number of visitors per year.

The correct answer is True.
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Hi. Regarding C, why is there a positive correlation? The number are varying up and down....Tks! :please:­
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I fail to understand the logic in question C. How is it positively correlated? As mentioned in the case of Austria and Croatia.


Kindly elaborate.
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I fail to understand the logic in question C. How is it positively correlated? As mentioned in the case of Austria and Croatia.


Kindly elaborate
 
Positively correlated does not mean that all the data points have to be in a particular order. It means that the general trend is positive or that majoity of the data points move in a certail direction. There could be few abberations.

As per GMAT, the definitions are as below
  1. Charts often show trends over time. They may show that a variable’s values increase, decrease, fluctuate, or change in cycles. They may also show values of different plotted variables changing the same ways or opposite ways.Other things equal, an observed trend over a period is evidence that the same trend extends at least slightly before and after that period. This evidence is stronger the longer the observed trend has lasted and the more varied the conditions it’s lasted through. Generalizing from a longer observed period with more varied conditions is like generalizing from a larger sample.  But the odds increase of other factors disrupting the observed trend at times more distant from the observed period, and in situations whose conditions differ more from those observed.

     
  2. Two quantitative or ordinal variables are positively correlated if they both tend to be higher in the same cases. They’re negatively correlated if one tends to be higher in cases where the other is lower.
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KarishmaB is there any way to estimate proportion of museums in FR and NL?
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KarishmaB is there any way to estimate proportion of museums in FR and NL?

For these simple one step divisions, you should use the calculator. Practice using it so that you don't forget it exists in the actual test. We can estimate but frankly, after estimating, I will still use the calculator and here is why:

FR = 780/1173
Approximate this to 800/1200. It is a very decent approximation because we have increased the numerator by 20 and denominator by 27. The denominator is greater than the numerator so percentage wise, we have increased both equally. So the actual value here would be very close to 66.6%

NL = 498/775
Approximate this to 500/800. I have over-estimated the denominator which means that the actual percentage will be greater than what I get.
5/8 = 62.5% (Fraction percent equivalents). The actual value will be a bit greater than this so I would guess that FR is higher but it would be better to check since 66.6 isn't much greater than 62.5.

Had the value for FR been 60, I would have been comfortable saying that NL is greater because actual NL value must be greater than 62.5.

Here is a video on fraction percent equivalents: https://youtu.be/HxnsYI1Rws8
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