A popular comedy show on Fox network had a rating of 4.0 but a share of 7.Why are these two numbers different?
A)Rating includes all TV households,and share considers only those households that have their TVs on at that time.
B)Share includes all TV households,and rating considers only those households that have their TVs on at that time.
C)Rating is provided by Arbitron and share is provided by Nielsen,and both use different methods for estimating audience size.
D)Rating is provided by Nielsen and share is provided by Arbitron,and both use different methods for estimating audience size.
E)Rating compares audience size to the entire TV universe,while share compares only audience size to other network programming.

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A) Rating and share measure different things: rating is the percentage of the total number of TV households that watched the show, while share is the percentage of households watching TV at the time of the show that watched it.

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