Let's analyze the chart and compare each major category's average starting salary to the overall average starting salary. Here's a step-by-step solution:
1. Identify Overall Average Salary:
- The overall average starting salary is [tex]$48,707.
2. List each Major's Starting Salary:
- Engineering: $[/tex]62,891
- Computer Science: [tex]$62,103
- Business: $[/tex]57,229
- Communications: [tex]$48,253
- Math and Sciences: $[/tex]44,299
- Education: [tex]$40,267
- Humanities and Social Sciences: $[/tex]38,049
3. Compare Each Major's Salary to the Overall Average:
- Engineering: [tex]$62,891 > $[/tex]48,707 (Above Average)
- Computer Science: [tex]$62,103 > $[/tex]48,707 (Above Average)
- Business: [tex]$57,229 > $[/tex]48,707 (Above Average)
- Communications: [tex]$48,253 < $[/tex]48,707 (Below Average)
- Math and Sciences: [tex]$44,299 < $[/tex]48,707 (Below Average)
- Education: [tex]$40,267 < $[/tex]48,707 (Below Average)
- Humanities and Social Sciences: [tex]$38,049 < $[/tex]48,707 (Below Average)
4. Determine Which Majors Lead to Above-Average Starting Salaries:
- Majors in Engineering, Computer Science, and Business all lead to above-average starting salaries.
- Majors in Communications, Math and Sciences, Education, and Humanities and Social Sciences do not lead to above-average starting salaries.
5. Conclusion Supported by the Chart:
- Majors in social sciences lead to above-average starting salaries: False
- Majors in education lead to above-average starting salaries: False
- Majors in humanities lead to above-average starting salaries: False
- Majors in engineering and tech lead to above-average starting salaries: True
Conclusion: The best-supported conclusion by the information in the chart is:
Majors in engineering and tech lead to above-average starting salaries.
Where "tech" is implied to refer to Computer Science.
