Nadia has collected data on whether students study abroad and whether their major is a foreign language.She has created a cross-tabulation with foreign language as the column and studying abroad as the row.She wants to compare foreign language majors to nonmajors.Which percentage should she use?
A)cell
B)column
C)marginal
D)row

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Nadia wants to compare foreign language majors to nonmajors, so she should use the column percentage. This will tell her what percent of students who studied abroad were foreign language majors and what percent were nonmajors. The row percentage would tell her what percent of foreign language majors studied abroad compared to what percent of nonmajors, which is not what she wants to compare. The marginal percentage would tell her the overall percentage of students who studied abroad or were foreign language majors, which is also not what she is comparing. The cell percentage would only provide information about one specific intersection of foreign language and studying abroad, which is not as useful for comparing majors as the column percentage.

Nadia Has Collected Data on Whether Students Study Abroad and Whether