Binge Drinking Table shows the percentage of high school freshmen (Grade 9) and seniors (Grade 12) in the United States who had five or more drinks of alcohol in a row, that is, within a couple of hours, on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey.
TABLE 1.5
Year | All Freshmen | All Seniors |
1991 | 22.6 | 39.3 |
1993 | 22.0 | 39.1 |
1995 | 24.5 | 39.0 |
1997 | 25.7 | 39.3 |
1999 | 21.1 | 41.6 |
2001 | 24.5 | 36.7 |
2003 | 19.8 | 27.2 |
2005 | 19.0 | 32.8 |
2007 | 17.0 | 36.5 |
Source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Healthy Youth! Youth Online: Comprehensive Results
(http:llapps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrhsslindex.asp).
a. What is the general trend in binge drinking for freshmen and seniors?
b. Use pattern recognition and inductive reasoning to predict whether there will be an increase or decrease in the percentage of binge-drinking for freshmen for the 2009 reporting period.
c. Use pattern recognition and inductive reasoning to predict whether there will an increase or decrease in the percentage of binge-drinking for seniors in 2009.
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