Aresearcher wished to gauge public opinion on gun control. he randomly selected 1000 people from amongst all registered voters and asked them the following question: "do you believe that gun control laws which restrict the ability of americans to protect their families should be eliminated? ". identify the abuse of statistics.

a) nonresponse

b) loaded question

c) self interest

d) reported results

B) Loaded question  is the answer. A loaded question is a complex question that contains unjustified assumptions.

Step-by-step explanation:

The abuse of statistics refers to the misuse of numerical data sometimes due to error or sometimes intentionally to manipulate people's opinions. This abuse can cause a biased opinion if the person is not careful to notice the error or manipulation.

Here, we can see that the researcher has clearly stated, that gun control law prevents the ability of families to protect themselves. This can give biased opinions. Rather it should have been simply asked if the people wanted to eliminate such law.

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step-by-step explanation:

similar triangles are triangles which have the same shape but not the same size. this means their angle measures are equal but their side lengths are not instead they are proportional. to solve, we will set up a proportion and solve.

a proportion is two equal ratios set equal to each other. we form the ratios by finding corresponding sides (sides which match to each other on both triangles by their position). out ratios will be one side of the small triangle over the corresponding side on the big triangle as shown below:

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to solve the proportion, we'll cross multiply by multiplying numerator with denominator across the equal sign.