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Imogen and Ravi used a content analysis to investigate how emotional expressions are depicted for animal and human characters in children's picture books from two popular publishing houses. To record the data, a tally chart was used.

Table 3 shows the data they gathered.

Table 3: Tally chart of depicted emotion and subject by publisher

Depicted Subject & EmotionPublisher XPublisher YTotal
Positive Emotion Animal`
Positive Emotion Human`
Neutral Emotion Animal`
Neutral Emotion Human`
Negative Emotion Animal`
Negative Emotion Human``
a.

Calculate the percentage of all animal characters represented with a positive emotion across both publishers. Show your workings and give your answer to two decimal places.

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b.

Explain how Imogen and Ravi could assess the reliability of their content analysis.

[4]

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