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The bar graph displays the percentage of Australian farms that were Updated on: 03 Dec 2023, 02:16
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The bar graph displays the percentage of Australian farms that were victims of each of the twelve categories of agricultural crimes as defined by the Department of Criminology. Farms that reported more than one category in a single incident are counted in each category.

Based on the graph, please answer the questions that follow.

1. The total percentage of Australian farms victimized by agricultural crime .

2. of farms that were victimized by agricultural crimes were victims of theft.




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Are the answers :

I.) C. cannot be determine from the graph

II.) A. More than half

III.) C. 3 times

Sajjad1994, waiting to hear from you .
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Are the answers :

I.) C. cannot be determine from the graph

II.) A. More than half

III.) C. 3 times

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OA is B, A and C. Let me know if you need explanation.

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Sajjad1994, Could you share the Official Explanation please ?
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1. Was less than 30%. When estimating the value of each bar, keep in mind that you won't be able to prove that the total number of farms victimized is greater than 30%. That's because the legend of the graph notes that some farms may be double-counted on this graph, meaning that even if the sum of the bars is greater than 30% the total percentage may be lower than that. (For example, if every single farm that was a victim of Livestock Theft was also counted in at least one other category, then that 4.7% would have to be subtracted from the combined total.) With this in mind, you should try to prove that the figure is less than 30%. If you round up your estimates of each bar you should find that the sum is still less than 30, meaning that you can safely conclude that the total percentage is less than 30%.

2. More than half. Here you shouldn't have to actually calculate - since the highest and second-highest categories each involve theft, you can "pair off" the theft and non-theft categories to make comparisons. Machinery/equipment theft is slightly more than illegal hunting/fishing and theft of fuel is slightly more than illegal dumping (all leaving "livestock theft's nearly 5% alone). And theft of tools is more than damage/vandalism, leaving just farm residence burglary and sabotage to "outweigh" the remaining four categories. Clearly it won't be enough, so since theft occurs more than non-theft, you can conclude that the answer is more than half.

3. 3 times. Livestock theft's number is more than 4.5% and theft of produce is between 1 and 1.5%, so the only plausible answer choice is 3 times.
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Sajjad1994, thank you for sharing the OE as soon as possible. It was really helpful in understanding where I had gone wrong.
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1. Was less than 30%. When estimating the value of each bar, keep in mind that you won't be able to prove that the total number of farms victimized is greater than 30%. That's because the legend of the graph notes that some farms may be double-counted on this graph, meaning that even if the sum of the bars is greater than 30% the total percentage may be lower than that. (For example, if every single farm that was a victim of Livestock Theft was also counted in at least one other category, then that 4.7% would have to be subtracted from the combined total.) With this in mind, you should try to prove that the figure is less than 30%. If you round up your estimates of each bar you should find that the sum is still less than 30, meaning that you can safely conclude that the total percentage is less than 30%.

2. More than half. Here you shouldn't have to actually calculate - since the highest and second-highest categories each involve theft, you can "pair off" the theft and non-theft categories to make comparisons. Machinery/equipment theft is slightly more than illegal hunting/fishing and theft of fuel is slightly more than illegal dumping (all leaving "livestock theft's nearly 5% alone). And theft of tools is more than damage/vandalism, leaving just farm residence burglary and sabotage to "outweigh" the remaining four categories. Clearly it won't be enough, so since theft occurs more than non-theft, you can conclude that the answer is more than half.

3. 3 times. Livestock theft's number is more than 4.5% and theft of produce is between 1 and 1.5%, so the only plausible answer choice is 3 times.
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This is a very good question! Thanks!

I will leave here a more visual way to see the explanation of the second question­­ of how you can "pair off" the theft and non-theft categories.
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Official Explanation

1. Was less than 30%. When estimating the value of each bar, keep in mind that you won't be able to prove that the total number of farms victimized is greater than 30%. That's because the legend of the graph notes that some farms may be double-counted on this graph, meaning that even if the sum of the bars is greater than 30% the total percentage may be lower than that. (For example, if every single farm that was a victim of Livestock Theft was also counted in at least one other category, then that 4.7% would have to be subtracted from the combined total.) With this in mind, you should try to prove that the figure is less than 30%. If you round up your estimates of each bar you should find that the sum is still less than 30, meaning that you can safely conclude that the total percentage is less than 30%.

2. More than half. Here you shouldn't have to actually calculate - since the highest and second-highest categories each involve theft, you can "pair off" the theft and non-theft categories to make comparisons. Machinery/equipment theft is slightly more than illegal hunting/fishing and theft of fuel is slightly more than illegal dumping (all leaving "livestock theft's nearly 5% alone). And theft of tools is more than damage/vandalism, leaving just farm residence burglary and sabotage to "outweigh" the remaining four categories. Clearly it won't be enough, so since theft occurs more than non-theft, you can conclude that the answer is more than half.

3. 3 times. Livestock theft's number is more than 4.5% and theft of produce is between 1 and 1.5%, so the only plausible answer choice is 3 times.
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­One doubt:
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Since the question says Farms that reported more than one category in a single incident are counted in each category, thinking of minimum theft case and maximum non theft case, we can assume every occurance of theft happened in the farms are part of farms where lifestock theft happened and every farm with non theft crimes are exclusive. So overall % of farms were theft happened can be 4.8 (less than 5%) and overall non theft will be addition of non theft % crimes, which will make it around 9%

Since is assumption is also a valid scenario, the answer should have been inconclusive or cannot be determined.

Looking forward to others thoughts­

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