A college professor classifies his students according to their grade point average (GPA) and their gender.The resulting cross-classification table is shown below.
If you made a pie chart for male GPAs and a pie chart for female GPAs, those pie charts would look the same.

Question

A college professor classifies his students according to their grade point average (GPA) and their gender.The resulting cross-classification table is shown below.

If you made a pie chart for male GPAs and a pie chart for female GPAs, those pie charts would look the same.

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The cross-classification table does not indicate whether the distribution of GPAs among males and females is the same. The pie charts for male and female GPAs could look different if the distribution of GPAs is not equal among the genders.

A College Professor Classifies His Students According to Their Grade