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Cigarette Smoking Table (top of next page shows the percentage of high school freshmen (Gr...

Cigarette Smoking Table (top of next page shows the percentage of high school freshmen (Grade 9) and seniors (Grade 12) in the United States who reported having smoked cigarettes on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey.

a. What is the general trend in cigarette smoking for freshmen snd senior?

TABLE 1.4

Year

All Freshmen

AH Seniors

1991

23.2

30.1

1993

27.8

34.5

1995

31.2

38.2

1997

33.4

39.6

1999

27.6

42.8

2001

23.9

35.2

2003

17.4

26.2

2005

19.7

27.6

2007

14.3

26.5

Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy Youth! Youth Online: Comprehensive Results.(httpd:/apps. need, cde .gov/yrhss/inde.x.asp)


b. Use pattern recognition and inductive reasoning to predict the pattern of cigarette-smoking freshmen for the 2011 reporting period.


c. Use pattern recognition and inductive reasoning to predict the pattern of cigarette-smoking seniors for the 2011 reporting period.

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