A newspaper reported that 41% of students who had taken calculus in high school had a first year college GPA (grade point average) of 3.2 or higher. Explain why it would also have been useful to know what the baseline rate was (i.e. the proportion of students without calculus who had a GPA of 3.2 or higher).

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