You are taking a university course with a combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment. You know that there are many more undergraduate than graduate students enrolled in this course. There is a woman who looks to be about thirty sitting next to you. If you use only the base rate to guess her student status, you would guess that she is a(n) __________ student because __________.

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Since there are many more undergraduate students enrolled in the course, the base rate would lead us to guess that she is an undergraduate student. The fact that she appears to be around thirty years old is not necessarily a reliable indicator of her status as a graduate student, as there may be older undergraduate students in the class as well. Thus, D is the best answer based on the information given.

You Are Taking a University Course with a Combined Graduate