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Question 158

A student extracts the following entries from the OCR large data set for the proportion of employed people travelling to work by train.

Local AuthorityTrain countEmployed totalRecorded proportion
P18652278940.00818
Q828490141.69
Rmissing918770.00767
S469377670.0124
a.

Identify and explain the error in the recorded proportion for Q.

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b.

State how the entry for R should be handled before analysis.

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c.

Explain why comparing the train counts alone could give a misleading ranking of the Local Authorities.

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