What generalization is most accurate, based on the table?

Correct: a)Women are more likely to support Democrats. 53% vs 42% men

The others are false because...
b) False. 43% women vs 52% men. Women are less likely to support repub.
c) The amount of people who voted is impossible to see with percentages
d) This is opposite of a and therefore it is false.

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palebadgworthy palebadgworthy · Answer 2 · 2018-11-05T16:23:38+01:00

The correct answer is: "Women are more likely than men to support the Democrats".

The statistics provided on the chart contain information about the voting intentions of two differenced population groups, men and women, and the likelihood of each of them voting either the Democrats or the Republicans, expressed in percentage.

If analyzing the votes for the Democrats, 53% pertain to women while 42% to men. Therefore, it ratifies the first option as the correct one and the last option is invalidated.
If analyzing the votes for the Republicans, 52% pertain to men and 43% to women. Therefore, the second option is not true.
Finally, the third option is also false, as actually the situation is the opposite. If adding up the proportion of women and men which voted to any of the options, 96% (43+53) of the total population of women had voted, versus the 95% (42+53) out of the total population of men. Therefore, women voted in higher proportion.