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Two-part analysis questions

Two-part analysis questions

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Two-part analysis questions

- [Instructor] So the interesting thing about two-part analysis questions is that the answer to the first part will be somehow related to the answer to the second part. Let's have a look at an example of one of these questions. So just to give you a few pointers first. It's going to present a scenario and ask you to make two choices. These choices are going to be related to each other in some way. They're going to be presented in a table format. So here we have a question and the table, so let's take a moment and read this before we solve it. Audrey is ice fishing. She's going to cut some holes into the ice of a pond and then she is going to surround each hole with circular fencing to prevent anyone from falling in. And now here comes the math. Cutting each hole takes one minute per five inches of the hole's circumference, and the fencing takes 1.5 minutes per five inches of circumference to install. Okay, so clearly we're going to have to do some math here, and let's just have a look…

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