According to the manual, a teenager dialing a cell phone fails to notice an important road event about what percent of the time?
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A.
53 percent Correct
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B.
13 percent
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C.
33 percent
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D.
3 percent
The answer is "53 percent"
The manual states that a teenager dialing a cell phone misses an important road event 53 percent of the time. Picking B assumes dialing distracts every driver equally, so the adult figure gets grabbed instead of the higher teen rate.
The traps in the wrong answers
B. 13 percent
This figure is for an adult dialing a cell phone, not for a teenager. This answer assumes dialing distracts every driver equally and picks the adult figure instead of the higher teen one.
C. 33 percent
This figure does not appear in the manual's cell phone comparison. This answer averages the adult 13 percent and teen 53 percent into a plausible middle number.
D. 3 percent
This is the manual's rate for a normal, undistracted driver, not for a distracted teen. This answer grabs the first percentage listed in the paragraph without checking which driver it describes.
This question tests your knowledge of Distracted Driving in Pennsylvania. Source: Pennsylvania Driver Manual, "Driving Distractions / Did You Know?," p.32..
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