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GED Math: Measurement Drill 2, Problem 2. 55% of consumers preferred paper in the year...what?

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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by paper or plastic Both pretty

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bad off motorcycle helmet following graph shows consumer preference for

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paper plastic shopping bags in oh claire wisconsin from nineteen

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eighty eight to two thousand twelve Fifty five percent of

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consumers preferred paper in the year or what already This

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is really testing nothing more than our graph free ability

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And we read the numbers below and to decide sure

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And we see a bunch pretty green and blue bars

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on a grid You're okay Well looks like we're going

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to find here All right This question wants to know

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the year in which fifty five percent of consumers preferred

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paper Well eyeballing our graph way See that demand for

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paper bags has gone gradually down and demand for plastic

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bags has gone up way to save the environment with

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johnson The percentage are listed along the left hand side

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here and we're only interested in the fifty five percent

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No it has to be this line right here in

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between fifty and sixty And following it to the right

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We see it hits the tippy top of this green

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Bar right chair Well sure enough into our legend Green

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represents paper So we just check to see what year

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were at And it looks like it's the year two

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thousand interesting fact that's Also the year the residents of

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eau claire wisconsin decided to just give up completely and

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start a nuclear waste pile in the middle of town 00:01:28.336 --> [endTime] square

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