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{When the four listed methods of suicide are considered together, what were the top five leading causes of injury deaths in Americans aged 15-24 in 2018 (from highest to lowest)?  
 
{When the four listed methods of suicide are considered together, what were the top five leading causes of injury deaths in Americans aged 15-24 in 2018 (from highest to lowest)?  
 
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{ 5 } Unintentional drowning
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{ 5 _1 } Unintentional drowning
{ 1 } Motor vehicle crashes
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{ 1 _1 } Motor vehicle crashes
{ 2 } Suicide
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{ 2 _1 } Suicide
{ 3 } Unintentional poisoning
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{ 3 _1 } Unintentional poisoning
{ 4 } Homicide by firearm
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{ 4 _1 } Homicide by firearm
  
 
(As an aside: What might explain the high number of "unintentional poisoning"?)
 
(As an aside: What might explain the high number of "unintentional poisoning"?)
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{According to NHTSA, what was the total economic and societal costs of motor vehicle crashes in 2010 (expressed in billions of 2010 dollars)?  
 
{According to NHTSA, what was the total economic and societal costs of motor vehicle crashes in 2010 (expressed in billions of 2010 dollars)?  
 
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{What is this same value expressed in billions of of 2019 dollars?  
 
{What is this same value expressed in billions of of 2019 dollars?  
 
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{ 900-1200 _5}
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{Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 25-34 in 2020?  
 
{Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 25-34 in 2020?  

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Reading and Math Skills

1 Which is (likely) the more serious physical injury?

MAIS 1
MAIS 3

2 When the four listed methods of suicide are considered together, what were the top five leading causes of injury deaths in Americans aged 15-24 in 2018 (from highest to lowest)?

Unintentional drowning

Motor vehicle crashes

Suicide

Unintentional poisoning

Homicide by firearm
(As an aside: What might explain the high number of "unintentional poisoning"?)

3 According to NHTSA, what was the total economic and societal costs of motor vehicle crashes in 2010 (expressed in billions of 2010 dollars)?

4 What is this same value expressed in billions of of 2019 dollars?

5 Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 25-34 in 2020?

Yes
No

6 Assuming that statistics for deaths from causes other than COVID-19 have not changed significantly since 2018, was COVID-19 one of the 10 leading causes of death among people 15-24 in 2020?

Yes
No