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605550454035302520151050Female farmersas a percentage of totalnorth Ondocentral Ondosouth OndoPercentage of Ondo State Small-Scale Farmers Who Are Female, by Main Crop GrownOndo State region cereals root crops non–root vegetables
  • For each data category, the following bars are shown:
    • cereals
    • root crops
    • non–root vegetables
  • The data for the 3 categories are as follows:
    • north Ondo:
      • cereals: 30.4%
      • root crops: 16.73%
      • non–root vegetables: 58.69%
    • central Ondo:
      • cereals: 36.9%
      • root crops: 19.93%
      • non–root vegetables: 45.1%
    • south Ondo:
      • cereals: 35.9%
      • root crops: 18.78%
      • non–root vegetables: 53.27%

Geographer Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin and his colleagues surveyed small-scale farmers in three locations in Ondo State, Nigeria—which has mountainous terrain in the north, an urbanized center, and coastal terrain in the south—to learn more about their practices, like the types of crops they mainly cultivated. In some regions, female farmers were found to be especially prominent in the cultivation of specific types of crops and even constituted the majority of farmers who cultivated those crops; for instance, blank

Which choice most effectively uses data from the graph to complete the example?

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Choice C is the best answer because it uses data from the graph to effectively complete the example of Eludoyin and his colleagues’ findings concerning female farmers in some regions of Ondo State, Nigeria. The graph presents values for the percentage of Ondo State small-scale farmers who are female, by type of crop and region. The graph shows that of the farmers mainly cultivating non-root vegetables, approximately 57% in north Ondo and approximately 54% in south Ondo are female; in other words, most of those farmers are female, which exemplifies the idea that female farmers make up the majority (more than half) of the farmers cultivating specific types of crops in some regions.

Choice A is incorrect because it inaccurately cites data from the graph: the graph shows that in south Ondo, most of the farmers mainly cultivating non-root vegetables are women (approximately 54%), but that only about 35% (less than half) of the farmers mainly cultivating cereals are women. Choice B is incorrect because it inaccurately cites data from the graph: the graph shows that more women in central Ondo mainly cultivate cereals than mainly cultivate root crops (approximately 36% and 20%, respectively). Additionally, it doesn’t effectively complete the example because the graph shows that female farmers don’t make up the majority (more than half) of the farmers for any type of crop in central Ondo. Choice D is incorrect because it doesn’t effectively complete the example; it simply states that a relatively equal proportion of women across the three regions mainly cultivate cereals, which doesn’t address the value for that proportion and thus doesn’t show that a majority (more than half) of the farmers cultivating certain crops are female.

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